dp5 upgrade not an app

theboinkbaron · Post by **theboinkbaron** » Sun May 21, 2006 6:13 pm

Hi, I bought the DP5 upgrade a couple weeks ago, but only just tonday had a chance to install it, and when I did, what should be the DP5 application doesn't have an icon and tells me it is a console document. I opened up the package contents and was able to run the digital performer executable, but I'd like to know if anyone has run into this problem as well with this specific upgrade or with previous upgrades. Is there a solution? I'm going to wait for responses before I go ahead and do anything hasty.

Shooshie · Post by **Shooshie** » Sun May 21, 2006 6:18 pm

Did you get it on DVD? If it was shipped to you by MOTU, the disk should open up to an installer. Click the installer, and it installs an application--DP5--along with its folder and assorted support folders. So, no... you should not be looking at an executable. Something's wrong there. Call MOTU.

Shooshie

theboinkbaron · Post by **theboinkbaron** » Sun May 21, 2006 6:40 pm

My installer is on a disc and i ran it and it installed it into a new folder, but what should be the digital performer app icon is not registered as an application. It's beginning to sound like a call to motu is a good idea. If they have any insight into this, I'll post again in case someone else has this problem and tries searching the forum for it.

dweiss · Post by **dweiss** » Sun May 21, 2006 10:25 pm

Try repairing permissions.

carrythebanner · Post by **carrythebanner** » Mon May 22, 2006 7:04 am

Maybe try renaming the "Digital Performer 5.0" file to "Digital Performer 5.0.app".

theboinkbaron · Post by **theboinkbaron** » Thu May 25, 2006 4:48 pm

...and it's carrythebanner for the win. the official response was to add .app to the end of the filename. the icon immediately turned into the dp5 icon. all is well.

Frodo · Post by **Frodo** » Thu May 25, 2006 4:58 pm

hey boink:

Wow, that went on for several days-- glad you got it working.

That's really odd with that install glitch not putting on the proper extension, though. Makes me wonder if there shouldn't be some sort of install verification feature-- and if there is why it didn't work.

buddhabelly · Post by **buddhabelly** » Thu May 25, 2006 6:04 pm

theboinkbaron wrote:...and it's carrythebanner for the win. the official response was to add .app to the end of the filename. the icon immediately turned into the dp5 icon. all is well.

If you just delete the .0 it works too. It looks like the .0 confuses the OS. I've seen 3 computers with DP 5 installs, 2 no problems 1 had the problem.