Comments on: New! :: 7zX 1.4.2 release 2

By: rac

rac — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:33:31 +0000

I, too, have had some problems with 7zX giving me the same error message. I have an alias loaded in my dock. Whenever I want to compress, encrypt a file I, first grab the file icon, then as I drag the icon to the dock I depress the “p” key. I keep the key depressed until the password window comes up. Once this is done, 7zX does its job beautifully. The only problem I’m encountering is that sometimes when I try to decompress the file 7zX gives me the very same message Mr. JeePee gets. It’s facinating to watch the colored wheel revolve, isn’t it!

rac

By: JeePee

JeePee — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:06:59 +0000

Well, even when I quit all programs (just to be sure there can be no program interupting ) that annoying sound comes. Can it be that you do not get the “Thanks for using, etc. dialog and that that’s the reason I get the noise?

Maybe it’s a bug in Mac OS X, because I can remember getting that noise in another occasion with another program and that it was something in the OS.

I still find it hard to find the right moment, so I have to keep the P-key down a while and turn off “the music”.

By the way, can you reproduce my other problem mentioned somewhere else above?

“It seems not possible to use the encryption with a password. Encrypting works, but when I try to decrypt it, I get this:
Enter password (will not be echoed) :
Extracting [Content] Data Error
Sub items Errors: 1
And 7zX stays open and keeps processing… nothing… I’m using the latest update of Mac OS X (10.4.7) on an iMac G4 and the latest update of 7zX.”

By: Taskman

Taskman — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:07:47 +0000

It doesn’t happen here. Make sure 7zX is the frontmost application when you hit that key.

By: JeePee

JeePee — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:02:43 +0000

Thanks for answering, but the problem stays the same. I wait for the 7zX window and then I keep down the P key until the password dialog appears, but the sound (the same sound when I push a button on a wrong moment) keeps repeating as long as I push the P-key…

Can you change that? Now I have to mute my loudspeakers…

By: Taskman

Taskman — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:54:14 +0000

You aren’t doing it with the right timing. Try waiting until you see the 7zX window and then keeping down the “P” key until the password dialog appears.

By: JeePee

JeePee — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:56:37 +0000

Hi,

It seems not possible to use the encryption with a password. Encrypting works, but when I try to decrypt it, I get this:

Enter password (will not be echoed) :
Extracting [Content] Data Error

Sub items Errors: 1

And 7zX stays open and keeps processing… nothing… I’m using the latest update of Mac OS X (10.4.7) on an iMac G4 and the latest update of 7zX.

Another question, what moment exactly do I have to press the ‘p’ to make something encrypted with a password? I’m getting irritated hearing the sound effect of pushing the p longer to be sure the window to type a password will come…

Thank you,

JeePee

By: Taskman

Taskman — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:25:03 +0000

Excellent work to both of you.

Ronald, you might want to try creating a new user account, and running 7zX under it. If that works, then I guess you removed some essential component from your original Mac OS X installation.

By: Dave Metzener

Dave Metzener — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:25:35 +0000

Sorry, I see what the problem is now. Apparently the “~” refers to the “home” directory not the hard drive. I copied the files to {users home folder}/Library/Workflows/Application/Finder and they are there.

I’m a relative newbie to OS X and a little less of a newbie to Unix/Linux, but I guess I still have some stuff to learn.

Thanks for your time!

By: Ronald Price

Ronald Price — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:54:09 +0000

I have 1.4.2r2 installed. I’m guessing the problem is caused by something I’ve done with my system configuration. I’ll reset stuff to factory defaults and see if that helps.

By: Taskman

Taskman — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 16:32:34 +0000

Ronald Price: The archive testing function has been removed after release 1.4. The only thing I can suggest so far is that you make sure that you updated 7zX to 1.4.2r2. Versions 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 contained a bug which would prevent a few functions to work correctly, including the encryption suite.

Dave Metzener: While you appear to have copied the files into the right folder, I have noticed that the workflows appear to have the wrong owner. In particular, try assigning them to the “staff” group.