The worst app install in which I was ever involved.

[Stinky The Clown]

Last edited Sat Feb 25, 2012, 05:23 PM - Edit history (1)

My son is back in school, as a nursing student. He wanted to install a study guide that was on disk. It said the media was for PC and Mac. It mentioned Windows 7 and OS X 10.4 or higher. The Mac version is "Universal," not Power PC or Intel.

The total install was about 229 MB. It crashed twice on his less-than-1-year-old MBPro running Snow Leopard. Each crash was after 30 minutes of the slowest install I ever saw. We tried in on my even newer MBPro and on Sparkly's older MBPro. All with the same results. We are now well over two hours into this mess. I finally try it on my nearly four year old Mac Pro (Double Quad Core Xeon and 14 GB Ram running Snow Leopard). In less than 10 minutes it was installed.

I copied the app from my Applications Folder to his desktop and then to his Applications folder.

It runs fine.

I never encountered a more difficult app to install. Have you?

Also, as a "Universal" app, will it run under Lion?




edit to change 229 GB to 229 MB