[moneydance] Apple Mac Java Update 4 and Find and Replace Plugin

[Andrew Pastuszak]

Worked for me!

On Jun 18, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Gordon Alley wrote:

> I was one of the original posters about this problem, and Steve's
> instructions worked fine for me (with a slight modification, explained
> below). MD now starts normally, and Find and Replace appears to work  
> (I did
> a simple search for a name in a description field). About Moneydance  
> now
> shows Java Version: 1.6.0_13.
> You might want to make a note in your instructions that the Terminal  
> shell
> command
>
> cd /Applications/Moneydance.app/Contents/MacOS
>
> is correct only if
> Moneydance is located at the top level of the Applications folder (the
> default location, I
> suppose). I keep mine in a subfolder which also contains  a PDF user's
> guide. So I had
> to use the command
>
> cd /Applications/Moneydance/Moneydance.app/Contents/MacOS
>
> instead.
>
> Thanks to everyone for coming up with a fix for this.
>
> -Gordon
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:36 AM, kmenningen tds.net <kmenningen at tds.net 
> >wrote:
>
>> That's great, thanks Steve! Would another Mac user please confirm  
>> that this
>> fix works as expected? Then I'll update the installation instructions
>> again.
>>
>> Sean appears to be preparing another update release of MD 2008, so
>> hopefully
>> the updated JavaApplicationStub will be released with it.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> --Kevin
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Steve Lessard
>> <moneydanceuser at pigdawg.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Good new, everyone.  I have a fix!!!
>>>
>>> Kevin, There is nothing wrong with your Find and Replace plugin on  
>>> Mac
>>> OS X.  It does work fine, even after installing the recent Java  
>>> update.
>>>
>>> First, let me describe the problem...  When starting Moneydance.app
>>> from the Finder (usually by double-clicking its icon) OS X is  
>>> starting
>>> Moneydance with the Java 1.5 VM.  I am not 100% sure why OS X is not
>>> respecting the Java Preferences, but I believe it has something to  
>>> do
>>> with the JavaApplicationStub file that is part of Moneydance.app.
>>>
>>> And now for the fix... WARNING: DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK
>>>
>>> Replacing the JavaApplicationStub file with one from the 1.6 JVM  
>>> will
>>> get Moneydance (and the Find and Replace plugin) running under the  
>>> 1.6
>>> JVM.
>>>
>>> Using Terminal.app do the following three commands:
>>> cd /Applications/Moneydance.app/Contents/MacOS
>>> mv JavaApplicationStub JavaApplicationStub.bak
>>> cp /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/
>>> Resources/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub .
>>>
>>>
>>> Those three commands do this:
>>> change to the directory where the Moneydance binaries live
>>> make a backup of the existing JavaApplicationStub file by renaming  
>>> it
>>> to JavaApplicationStub.bak
>>> copy the JavaApplicationStub file from the current JVM install
>>>
>>> And now you will be able to double-click the Moneydance icon and
>>> happily run Moneydance with the Find and Replace plugin.  :-)
>>>
>>> Good luck!
>>> -SteveL
>>>
>>> p.s. A nice bonus is that Little Snitch once again sees Moneydance
>>> running as Moneydance instead of JavaApplicationStub.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 17, 2009, at 9:00 AM, moneydance-info-request at moneydance.com
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Message: 14
>>>> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:53:19 -0500
>>>> From: "kmenningen tds.net" <kmenningen at tds.net>
>>>> Subject: [moneydance] Apple Mac Java Update 4 and Find and Replace
>>>>      Plugin
>>>> To: General discussion related to Moneydance
>>>>      <moneydance-info at moneydance.com>
>>>> Message-ID:
>>>>      <eb93a69a0906161853o395ce73dqf30ae0b4b0228d81 at mail.gmail.com>
>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
>>>>
>>>> So by now you've heard that there are issues with the Find and  
>>>> Replace
>>>> Plugin and the new Mac Java Update 4.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, I'm a Windows user and I don't have any solutions at
>>>> the
>>>> moment. Rewriting Find and Replace for Java 1.5 is not an option  
>>>> I'm
>>>> willing
>>>> to take, and I don't have a Mac (yet) to play with and tinker. So  
>>>> at
>>>> this
>>>> time all I can suggest is to uninstall Find and Replace (per  
>>>> Gordon's
>>>> instructions below).
>>>>
>>>> Users on other operating systems should be okay. I am currently
>>>> using (and
>>>> developing with) Java 1.6.0_14 with no problems.
>>>>
>>>> --Kevin
>>>
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