Mac Crashing

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Hey, just having a few issues regarding Microsoft Error Reporting.. I regularly get an message saying this alerts daemon needs to close down... Its annoying and sometimes it crashes the finder...

any possible solutions to this please...?
 
PPC or Intel Apple?

Are you running Messenger and/or Entourage? The Alerts Demon is UB in MSN Messenger, and PPC for Entourage, so it runs under Rosetta.

Whichever you have - try reinstalling.
 
Intel mac...

i think its just messenger.. however i did restart and update office 04 and it hasnt crashed since.

when will a proper messenger be out for mac? this one is really buggy and horrible
 
Microsoft Messenger 6.0.2 is Universal Binary (meaning it runs natively on both PPC and Intel architecture). That is their "proper" client. Works fine on my Intel Macbook and Macbook Pro.
 
use A-messenger the Microsoft client is rubbish, drops out all the time ime.
A-messenger has pretty much all the same functionality
 
mdixson said:
use A-messenger the Microsoft client is rubbish, drops out all the time ime.
A-messenger has pretty much all the same functionality


Please tell me you are having a giggle? AMSN is the worst MSN client ever - along with Mercury. Both are hideously ugly and I could never get them to work.

One thing about owning a Mac is that I expect nice clean software that looks really good. Asthetics are a lot to me, and I am sure that carries through 99% of the Apple enthusiasts. AMSN and Mercury are 2 insults to the Apple community!
 
Adium is fantastic. Never had a problem with it and i've customised it to look great.
 
Adium is great however the one thing I do miss is the comment you can set after a name which is only viewable in live messenger atm it seems.
 
The Alerts demon from MSN Messenger is UB as noted above. However installing Entourage makes it a PPC binary and it is utilised for Messenger if you install Entourage. There is no workaround - but I am glad to see it works fine once Office is patched.

I have the same set-up and it is annoying to have this Rosetta'd app.

We won't see a UB Office till the next full price release AFAIK.
 
stuppy said:
Please tell me you are having a giggle? AMSN is the worst MSN client ever - along with Mercury. Both are hideously ugly and I could never get them to work.

One thing about owning a Mac is that I expect nice clean software that looks really good. Asthetics are a lot to me, and I am sure that carries through 99% of the Apple enthusiasts. AMSN and Mercury are 2 insults to the Apple community!

hence - the message is, go for adium ;)

i love adium, really customisable and it doesn't have the irritating habit of logging you off at inappropriate times likes MSN Messenger client. :(
 
stuppy said:
Please tell me you are having a giggle? AMSN is the worst MSN client ever - along with Mercury. Both are hideously ugly and I could never get them to work.

One thing about owning a Mac is that I expect nice clean software that looks really good. Asthetics are a lot to me, and I am sure that carries through 99% of the Apple enthusiasts. AMSN and Mercury are 2 insults to the Apple community!

aMSN is awesome.. especially if you need to transfer files..
new msn msger prog is fine. Personally i dont like adium at all.
 
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