NTX Software on Macbook Air

[slarti42uk]

I'm trying to get the NXT softwware to work on my mac but with no joy. It seems to intall ok but gets to 90% loded and then fails with:

Error: A required file is broken

Error code 1003

I've seen in another forum post else where that this may be down to the file system being case-sensitive. The solution presented there was to reformat as case-insensitive; which I cant do as I need it this way for linux compatibility.

So. Is there any way I can find out what file/files are wrongly named and rename them to the correct case?

MacBook Air is an intel mac running OS X 10.5.7

Thank you in advance

Steve

[JS]

If your filesystem is case-sensitive, it's not necessary to reformat.  It's most likely that it can't find the fantom.framework.  You can make a softlink between fantom.framework and Fantom.framework and I believe that fixes the problem. Give that a try and see.  Otherwise, see if you can determine which VI is broken.

[slarti42uk]

Thank you Joel for your reply.

Firstly I've done a full search and there is no file or folder called famtom.framework or Fantom.framework. Could it be that it's failed on the install and not told me?

Secondly if it's not this how would I go about finding the problem VI? Is there a log somewhere to say which file it's looking for but can't find?

Thanks again
Steve

[JS · Accepted solution]

I'm guessing that you are having a problem with the NXT-G environment and not LabVIEW. Is that correct?

To make the software work when your disk is formatted as case-sensitive, go to the terminal and enter the commands

cd /Library/Frameworks/Fantom.framework 
ln -s Fantom.framework fantom.framework

[slarti42uk]

Hi Joel,

I'm sorry yes it was NXT-G I was having problems with and I wasn't quite sure where labview fitted into it (or powered it).

However thank you SO much for you're solution, it worked perfectly. I'm not sure why that folder didn't come up in my search in Spotlight but I'm quite new to Mac.

Anyway problem fixed. 

Cheers

Steve