26 May 2013, 11:30
Hi
I am in 10.8.2, with FP 2.4.6, my Mac is a mid 2010 MBP
I am a long FP user, but, for the first time, I can't use it anymore, it simply stopped working, just like that: one day I wanted to see an app's packages contents with FP popup menu and then I realized FP was there no more... Don't know when and why it stopped.
I reinstalled everything, for User and next for All Users, restarted the Mac every time, nothing
I disabled Gatekeeper (never enabled, BTW) and reinstall, no good.
Trashed everything, even prefs file and FP folder items, no good.
In Activity Monitor, the FP-injector is running, but I have nothing on Finder: no Finder pop-up FP menu, no menubar FP menu.
Yes, everything is on in FP prefpane. I double checked every possible Prefpane option.
I also updated to 2.4.7 beta, no good.
Yep, it seems my Mac won't run FP ever...
The reason I post in the forum is that I have no other idea. And I can't live without FP
27 May 2013, 14:38
Hmm, is it only the contextual menu bit of FP that's not working?
Or does clicking in unused menubar space still work OK? (Make sure that unused menubar clicking is enabled in the prefpane.)
Does clicking at (0, 0), the upper left corner of the screen, pop up a FinderPop menu?
EDIT: I read your post again and see you say that menubar clicking doesn't work. Can you ensure it's enabled in the prefpane and try the (0, 0) click?
27 May 2013, 17:00
Sounds a bit like a problem I once had. Make sure "Folder Actions Setup" Service is enabled in the "Keyboard" System Preferences.
27 May 2013, 19:42
Yeah, was going to suggest that, but krasnoyarsk said that not even clicking-in-unused-menubar was working ... which I want to double-check.
One other user emailed me last week with a vaguely similar problem - the only thing I could see 'odd' about that user's setup was that he was using Menu Meters, with which FP has had problems in the distant past. I mentioned this to him but he hasn't got back to me yet...
27 May 2013, 21:37
Hello all
No, clicking at (0,0) doesn't work
Yes, Folder Actions is enabled.
Still, nothing works...
BTW... I use MenuMeters, But I always used it, and FP always worked with MM.
28 May 2013, 14:27
So could you try temporarily disabling MM, restarting and seeing whether FP works again?
EDIT: Another thing to try would be to Repair Permissions on your Startup Disk.
28 May 2013, 20:55
well, well, well: uninstalled MM, restarted and FP works! Bingo!
Reinstalled MM (no restart) and FP still good, so far...
28 May 2013, 21:07
That's interesting! Are you using the latest MM - 1.6 I think it is?
29 May 2013, 00:37
no, still using 1.5
i didn't even know MM was at v.1.6
it looks like we have something here.
14 Jun 2013, 23:14
unfortunately, FP still not working... everything wrong again.
16 Jun 2013, 15:40
Uninstalled FP from my system, I give up for now, sorry.
17 Jun 2013, 15:25
OK - sorry it didn't work out!