OT: Warning - New Quicktime

filmy wrote on 7/19/2005, 10:58 PM

Well this is just a warning to anyone who is thinking about instalkling the new verison of Quicktime. DON'T!!!

I tried to install it the other day and my system froze - locked up fully. Unable to shut down or reboot...I had to turn off the power. Now my system is a bit screwed up - takes about 15 minutes to boot into windows and, for whatever reason, Mozilla is ****** up. All my bookmarks are gone - nuked. The back up file is garbage. I dunno what else might have gotten screwed up as I am still looking. Trust me - when I opened mozilla and it acted like it was a brand new install my heart dropped. For whatever reason things like cookies and cookie sites files seemed to stay - however I have just had to reset my password for this site because suddenly my old password that worked 3 days ago did not work....look for another post on that gripe.

So FYI - Xp Pro w/ SP2 and the Quicktime install hung up at some script that was trying to run - I got a warning that the Quicktime installer was trying to access the internet and I hit "no" and that is when all hell broke loose. Beware!!

Comments

Liam_Vegas wrote on 7/19/2005, 11:03 PM

Sounds like time to do a System-Restore to just prior to the Quicktime install. Have you tried that?

apit34356 wrote on 7/20/2005, 1:37 AM

filmy, qt7 can be a pain, but check the latest updates from MS as or for a cause. I have notice a number of problems with the last 8 patches for XP Pro on a wide range of pcs. I just quessing, but its seems the MS product tracking software and MS antivirus and antispy ware does not like firefox and a few other ulitilies. Every 5-7 days, firefox gets sick for a few days and after a complete virus scan,( no viruses found), firefox works fine again. Only lost bookmarks completely twice, out of 6 events. Events seem to occur more on AMD that Intel, but it does happen on both brands.

p@mast3rs wrote on 7/20/2005, 5:57 AM

Wierd. I have had no problem installing QT7 Preview 1 or 2. Sadly though, QT's H.264 AVC quality is no where near that of Nero's at this point. Still, at this point, installing QT7 is not a good idea since its still very much in beta.

MUTTLEY wrote on 7/20/2005, 10:15 AM

The only thing I hate more than Quicktime is Real Media.

- Ray

www.undergroundplanet.com

Spot|DSE wrote on 7/20/2005, 10:34 AM

No Quicktime 7 install issues here, either. Yes, the AVC/H264/MPEG4 sucks currently, but they're coming along nicely with new stuff, or so it seems.

filmy wrote on 7/20/2005, 11:32 AM

On doing a search I see many, many issues come up with Quicktime 7 - but oddly most of them are on the Mac side no less. Ironic isn't it?

I did not find that many on the XPor Mozilla side of things. I did find this though - not what I need but interesting.

One odd thing that happened - in all my years of using Mozilla and the like I never had more than one bookmark file. However after this I got a new bookmark file for each time I hit a link - so, for example, after I posted here and searched around for Quicktime issues I looked in the Mozilla user folder - 118 bookmark files!!!!!!!!!!!! So I looked in the settings over and over again - nothing. I did a custom search in the settings and found this: "browser.bookmarks.added_static_root" "false" - Never heard of it but I changed the "False" to "True" and that solved it. Now I have one bookmark file as I always have. The other file that for sure changed was the perf.js file. Both the bookmarks file and the perfs file were replaced with |||||'s all the way through it. And at first I could not save any setting or bookmarks - seems the bookmark issue also was a perf's issue - each link would cause a new perfs files to be written. *sigh*

While it may not be something intended all I know is that clicking "No" to the pop up about Quicktime's installer trying to access the internet caused these issues. I suspect those with no issues on install did not stop Quicktime from connecting to whatever it wanted to connect to.

As for my bookmarks, once I got the perfs to stick and the multi bookmark files being wirtten, I imported ones I had backed up from November 2004. Not the most up to date but still better than nothing. I just have to weed through them all.