Read this if your Quicktime 7 is BROKEN under 10.3.x

Many people who rushed to download Quicktime 7 for Panther (Mac OS X 10.3.x) got bitten by a few nasties. You'd think we'd know better by now. Then again, someone has to be the first to test these things! If everyone waited, we'd all still be waiting, right?

One of the more vexing issues affecting pre-Tiger QT 7 installs happens when you try to Show Movie Properties. I witnessed this issue on a handful of machines this weekend. My solution was a tried and true one: "Don't do that!" A MacFixit reader has a better idea.

Here's what you do:

Quit Quicktime
In System Preferences-> International, change your language to something other than what it is set to.
Quit System Preferences (logout and re-login may be required).
Relaunch System Preferences and change the language back to your preferred setting.
Try Quicktime again. "Show Movie Properties..." should now work.

As a reminder, if you're cursing the day you ever heard of QT 7 and you're still running 10.3.9, you can revert back to QT 6.5.2 using Apple's QuickTime 6.5.2 re-installer.

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mary Kay HofMann

I removed as much of QuickTime 7 as I could from my computer because I wanted to download Creative Commons music and could not figure out how to do so with QuickTime 7; the right click doesn't work and neither does option clicking. I can't install previous editions of QuickTime because I keep getting a message that some vestige of QuickTime 7 is still in my computer somewhere and the software that reverts it to 6.5.2 insists that I do not have the right version of 7 to revert from. I am thinking of a clean install. I still use Panther at this point and see no reason to change for at least several months because it meets all of my needs at this time.

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