[APBeta] 2.0 b57

[Paul Rodman]

On Sep 12, 2009, at 7:27 AM, Anthony Tripodi wrote:

> This is the old good news and bad news routine...
>
> First the good news:  I had a problem with scripts that were fixed  
> in this latest build. Thank you!!

Sorry about the glitch in the last release that stopped several  
scripts from functioning correctly.

> Now the bad news: When I installed the new version, all my resources  
> disappeared. But, because I am a resourceful astronomer, I was able  
> to fill in the data. No matter, the old resource data disappeared,  
> and I had to rebuild the data. I only had to do this once for b57.  
> When I exit AP and restart it, all the resource data remains intact.

Not good (but Time Machine could be your friend). I have no  
explanation for this, unless the app crashed just at the point that  
the resource database was being copied back (the app works on a  
temporary copy). Someone else reported this some time back. If you (or  
anyone else) sees this happening, please let me know.

> When I look at the Field of View window, no catalogs are selected.  
> If I select the catalogs that I want, all works well and will remain  
> so until I exit the program. When I exit the program, no amount of  
> "save all" or "save" will keep the catalogs selected, and all must  
> be re-selected for every session of AP.

I'll file a bug report, but I'm wondering if both of these bugs are  
related somehow. If your file permissions have been toasted by the  
10.6 OS upgrade, it might explain things. You might want to repair  
permissions using Disk Utility just in case.

Paul R.