Read this if your Quicktime 7 is BROKEN under 10.3.x

By Laurie A. Duncan

Many people who rushed to download Quicktime 7 for Panther (Mac OS X 10.3.x) got bitten by a few nasties. You'd think we'd know better by now. Then again, someone has to be the first to test these things! If everyone waited, we'd all still be waiting, right?

One of the more vexing issues affecting pre-Tiger QT 7 installs happens when you try to Show Movie Properties. I witnessed this issue on a handful of machines this weekend. My solution was a tried and true one: "Don't do that!" A MacFixit reader has a better idea.

Here's what you do:

  1. Quit Quicktime
  2. In System Preferences-> International, change your language to something other than what it is set to.
  3. Quit System Preferences (logout and re-login may be required).
  4. Relaunch System Preferences and change the language back to your preferred setting.
  5. Try Quicktime again. "Show Movie Properties..." should now work.

As a reminder, if you're cursing the day you ever heard of QT 7 and you're still running 10.3.9, you can revert back to QT 6.5.2 using Apple's QuickTime 6.5.2 re-installer.

 

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