Comments on: Sequencing Apple QuickTime 7.x

By: The World Simplified is a Virtual World : Recipes and Step-By-Steps

The World Simplified is a Virtual World : Recipes and Step-By-Steps — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:31:02 +0000

[...] Sequencing Apple QuickTime 7.x [...]

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:02:05 +0000

Is that folder virtualised in your package? If it is not, users won’t have write access to that location. I would recommend placing the settings file inside your package on the Q: drive.

By: ucfchica1

ucfchica1 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:14:45 +0000

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\QuickTime\ is not retaining my QT settings after changing my Registry entry to reflect the new location?

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:54:48 +0000

I’ve updated the post with because the original script to copy preferences would work only on XP/2003. I’ve added support for Vista/2008.

By: badshadd

badshadd — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:14:36 +0000

I’ve been working with your great recipe that you developed with QuickTime 7.4.1.14 & I’ve had the same difficulties as JC stated in his comments. Did you identify what he had done wrong? I tried using @XCOPY, XCOPY & plain COPY in PRE LAUNCH, POST LAUNCH & POST SHUTDOWN scripts, but I’m still getting prompted at initial launch (only once) with the register file type associations dialog box which I believe overwrites the file I want to copy. The QTP file still doesn’t get overwritten after subsequent launches. If I manually copy the QTP file through my virtual IE link to the local system profile (while in the virtual enviroment on the client system), it works & still doesn’t get overwritten on subsequent launches. I don’t get it. Once again, these are beautifully written instructions, I’m just trying to put the icing on cake for delivering the preconfigured preferences to the end-user. ;^)

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 09:13:20 +0000

Hi JC, drop me a line through my contact page so you can send me a copy of your OSD file and I might be able to see whats happening.

What does stand out there, but not the cause, is that your asset folder (Q:\Quick_Time7.v01) is more than 11 characters long. You should really be sticking to a 8.3 type folder name to avoid conflicts with other packages.

By: JC

JC — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:02:54 +0000

Not sure why it is cutting it off but basically it is under the dependency area and it is just under the Client Version section. The script lines look identical to your lines above except my SG virtual drive letter and folder is Q:\Quick_Time7.v01\Prefs.

Thanks in advance.

By: JC

JC — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:01:06 +0000

Looks like it cutoff part of my Script statement…lets try again.

@XCOPY /E /I /Q Q:\Quick_Time7.v01\Prefs “%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\QuickTime”

By: JC

JC — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:59:12 +0000

I tried using this recipe and everything seemed to work just fine except copying over QuickTime.qtp during pre-launch. I have the .qtp file in a folder called prefs under the asset folder (I am assuming when we are talking asset folder it is the folder where the sprj file is saved to or the install folder that was used on teh sequencer…I went ahead and put the Prefs folder with the QuickTime.qtp file under it in both spots) and I put the script for it to do an xcopy (see below) in my osd file but it still does not copy the file. I do see the cmd box appear and it disappears pretty quickly but I do see the word prefs so I know it is running something to do with the prefs. I did a search on the target machine to see if it was possibly copying the file to the wrong directory and there is no other quicktime.qtp file besides in the %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\QuickTime\ directory. Any thoughts?

@XCOPY /E /I /Q Q:\Quick_Time7.v01\Prefs “%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\QuickTime”

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:18:43 +0000

Hi Marc, give the second option a go, where you copy the QuickTime.qtp file into the profile at launch.

By: Marc Fearby

Marc Fearby — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:28:39 +0000

Thanks for the recipe. I’m “cooking” it now and made the registry changes during the first monitoring phase, and now that I’m monitoring the first-run of QuickTime, I noticed that QuickTime still saved the settings file to “%USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\QuickTime\QuickTime.qtp”, and now when I check the registry to see if I might have stuffed up, there are no “HKLM\Software\Apple Computer, Inc.” or “HKCU\Software\Apple Computer, Inc.” keys at all.

When monitoring during the second phase, is QuickTime actually being virtualised at that point and could this be why those keys aren’t visible (to me) at that point? Or does QuickTime actually delete those keys for some really handy reason known only to those wonderful software developers at Apple?

This application virtualisation caper is fast turning into a complete pain in the you-know-what.