Charles Albrecht wrote:
>I downloaded the new POV-Ray 3.5.1 Public Release Candidate 1 (build
>0181), but it won't finish launching. I've sent in a bug report, but I
>thought I'd ask here in case anyone had a workaround that would allow
>build 181 to finish launching.
>
>At the end of the launch proceses as it beings to load the POVMSLib
>(Initializing POV-Ray Library), POV-Ray produces a dialog which claims:
>
>  This install of POV-Ray is incomplete or damaged. You have to
>  reinstall POV-Ray.
>
>  Some files required to run POV-Ray are missing. You should not
>  move or remove parts inside the POV-Ray folder.
>
>Which, clearly, I haven't - it being a fresh download and all.

[snip]

>And yet there is altogether nothing particular odd about my installation
>(with Dec 2003 Dev Tools) other than the fact I have /Users mounted on a

I think you're a little ahead of the rest of us on that score ;-)

>different volume than /. I can't imagine that would make much difference
>in the launch process when compared to the released 3.5 build 0173.

delete POV-Ray's preferences from ~/Library/Preferences/

[This fixed the same problem for me...]

>Launching in Classic leads directly to a crash without any error dialog

No suggestion for that, as I haven't had much time for POV-Ray of late, and
even less for classic...

[snip]

Have Fun
Martin

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