Fixing Dr. Seuss
I purchased MacKiev's "Dr. Seuss's ABC", a Mac based educational game for kids. It's a great game to help teach your kids the basics of the alphabet. My three year old loves it and was able to figure it out quite quickly. It comes with the Dr. Seuss book and is sure to be a hit with your kids. Unless you are running you Mac on a drive formatted with case-sensitivity enabled...
If this is the case, the app will not run, but will keep giving you an error message that it can't find the Xtras folder. It turns out there is an easy fix, just execute the following procedure:
- ctrl-click on the Dr. Seuss application
- select Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu
- in the finder window that pops up, go into the Contents folder
- next, go into the MacOS folder
- copy the folder called Xtras to your Desktop
- rename the folder to xtras (little x)
- copy the folder back into the MacOS folder
- close the finder window and run the app
- the app will now work
On a related note, the folks from MacKiev have wonderful tech support. I sent a note on Christmas day and received a same-day e-mail from a very nice person who provided me some basic troubleshooting thoughts. They did not give me the procedure above, but did suggest that the app needs to be on a case-insensitive volume. That tip lead me to experiment and to the procedure above.
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