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    pretty disappointed with front row...

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Lethal Lottery, Apr 18, 2008.

  1. Lethal Lottery

    Lethal Lottery Notebook Betrayer

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    i want to start off this thread saying i really like front row. presentation wise. however mine is freezing up every-time i use it. its gotten so bad that no short short keys work (not even apple option esc) i actually have to do hard shutdowns. this is pretty disappointing.
     
    Lethal Lottery, Apr 18, 2008
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    Weird. Is that on a fresh install?

    do you have any addons for front row (like codecs)?

    Whats really disappointing... you can't have front row on a 2nd screen while doing other stuff on your primary. It will black out the other screen. Super Lame.
     
    hollownail, Apr 18, 2008
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  3. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    That's awkward, its not supposed to lag up so easily. Have you tried all the troubleshooting?
     
    Sam, Apr 18, 2008
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    are you having trouble doing a specific single thing in FR? is it crashing on the same thing over and over again? need more info before we can help out.
     
    kgeier82, Apr 18, 2008
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    DamienThorn Notebook Consultant

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    I almost feel dirty suggesting such a standard response but...

    have you tried verifying/repairing your disk permissions?

    Also: has front row EVER worked, or have you had this problem from day one?
     
    DamienThorn, Apr 18, 2008
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    Go to ~/Library/Preferences and delete com.apple.frontrow.plist. (~ means your home folder)
    If that doesn't fix Front Row, you could try deleting Front Row.app in /Applications/, and then re-installing it from the OS X installation disc.
     
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  7. Lethal Lottery

    Lethal Lottery Notebook Betrayer

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    im just trying to play standard mp3 files. i will try budding's idea.

    EDIT: That file is not in that folder. i guess i will try renistalling front row. i just started using FR today i have had the mac for a few months now. prior to this i only used FR for like 5 minutes but i did not notice any problems. i ran disk permissons and got this hundreds of errors like this:


    Verify permissions for “Macintosh HD

    ACL found but not expected on "System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/Sites".

    imagine that x 1000 but different things


    Permissions verification complete

    i repaired the disk but im still getting those permission errors^
     
    Lethal Lottery, Apr 18, 2008
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  8. kgeier82

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    look under the root folder, for the library/ then the same as what "budding "suggested.

    i think app stuff is not in the user folder structure but in the root library folder.
     
    kgeier82, Apr 18, 2008
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