[NTLK] So... am I correct in deducing that, since iSync i...

[Forrest]

I attempted this fix, and after 5-10 seconds of NCX bouncing merrily in the Dock, it vanished and did not open...as before.

Just an update for anyone with a similar problem.

Thanks,
--Forrest

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On Sep 26, 2012, at 5:36 PM, Craig Burton wrote:

> 
> On Aug 30, 2012, at 3:05 AM, Simon Bell wrote:
> 
>> The impression I get from the occasional correspondent is that NCX does work on OS X Lion, but I can’t confirm that first-hand. All I can say is that the last release of NCX (v1.3 build 44, available at <http://newtonresearch.org/connection/>) does work on OS X Snow Leopard.
>> 
>> I do know that the Backup Inspector fails to launch on OS X Lion unless you rename it BackupInspector (ie without a space in the name).
> 
> Simon, your note about the space character in the name of Backup Inspector was the solution for my NCX troubles after upgrading to Lion (which I'm seriously considering downgrading to 10.6).
> 
> The 'space' character in the name of the enclosing folder was the culprit.  I had installed NCX into a directory like this:
> 
> /Applications/NCX 1.3.44/NCX.app  (there is a space between 'X' and '1')
> 
> Upon launch from my hard drive NCX would fail, even though I could run NCX on the downloaded disk image, so there was something clearly wrong with the way that I installed it.
> 
> When I removed the space from the name of the enclosing folder, it worked as expected.
> 
> Thank you for this 'space' hint and especially for NCX!
> 
> Craig
> 
> 
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