Springy Does Not Work
Luke, posted Mar 15th 2010 at 3:37AM
I used springy as a trial for 2 days, and now it does not work, I have uninstalled, reinstalled, deleted prefs, repaired disk permissions..
But I get an error when I try to open springy that says “No Document Could Be Created”.
The program will not do anything else except this.
Hello Luke,
This is very a strange issue, one more user has experienced it as well. This happens if incorrect NSDocument subclass instance or no instance at all is mapped into the appropriate document file in the “Info.plist” file. There are three possible fixes, depending on the state of your system:
1. It may happen that the “Info.plist” file in Springy application bundle got corrupted for some reason. Try to download Springy again, install it and see whether it works.
2. Your LaunchSercives database may be corrupted for some reason. You can try to fix it by rebuilding it. You can do it the following way: open terminal and type (single line, no line breaks):
if running Tiger: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
if running Leopard of Snow Leopard: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister \ -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
3. It may happen your system is so corrupted in that regard that only reinstalling the OS can help. At least that was the case with the above mentioned user, who had the same problem. He managed to solve it only by reinstalling the OS.
I hope any of this will help.
Hi, the above suggestions didn’t work,
1. I use AppZapper when uninstalling so the plists are always zapped and gone. And I re-downloaded several times.
2. Tried this, nothing happened, same ol’ same old.
3. Haven’t tried this yet, however I’m looking to upgrade to Snow Leopard on tuesday so I’ll try again then.
It’s a shame because springy was looking like the best un-archiver for me, it’s not bloated and has nice little features that other things like stuff it don’t.
Also I think you should look into changing the icon, it is ugly.
Hi again Luke,
I’d really appreciate if you let me know whether Springy works okay for you now that (if) you upgraded to Snow Leopard.
It works fine now that I’m on Snow Leopard, will likely buy soon.
Had the same problem and it was caused by having set up my laptop and transfered same user that i have at my imac to use it on my new setup laptop (10.7.3) and same problem occured.
deleting Preferences didnt work, reinstalling the system – and importing same user didnt also not work, ... i couldnt import my user from iMac anymore, cause even if i would uninstall springy before importing the user … that wouldnt help. So i had to install (after reinstalling the system) every other software app manually from scratch – lotz of work … just coz springy doesnt want to get imported. grmpf …
Chris, I am very sorry for all the inconvenience you had with this problem.
It is a very strange problem indeed, it seems it has to do something with corrupted files in ~/Library folder. Please read the comment made by John Carter (4th in the row) on this blog post. Perhaps you can use it as a solution if the problem appears again (hopefully it won’t).
