Peter Stagg dot com - the blog » problem http://www.peterstagg.com Cumulus humilis & cirrus musings: ponderings in the cloud… Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:27:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 An eligable application cannot be found in /applications http://www.peterstagg.com/2008/02/an-eligable-application-cannot-be-found-in-applications/ http://www.peterstagg.com/2008/02/an-eligable-application-cannot-be-found-in-applications/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:29:34 +0000 pstagg http://www.peterstagg.com/index.php/?p=192 When Apple recently released updates to the iWork ’08 suite (Keynote, Pages & Numbers) I diligently downloaded and attempted to install the updates only to be faced with the above error message. Several Googles and the usual annoying number of “me toos” later I found the “please shoot me now”, oh so simple, solution. iWork ’08, by default, installs these apps into an “iWork 08″ folder under the Applications folder. If you move the apps, which I had (because every other Apple app goes straight into Applications – doesn’t it!), the updater can’t find them. I reinstalled iWork ’08 to its default folder (you probably could just move them) and low and behold the updater worked.

N.B. The same can apply to other Mac apps. So from now on I’m going to leave them in their default folder and if I want to be able to launch them from, say the Applications folder, I’m going to use sim-links.

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