simonjmsaidthis

Why do so many people insist they need Stuffit? What's wrong with zip? It's free and built-in to the OS. I rarely even see anything in .sit format anymore. The sooner Stuffit dies a tragic death the better.

After some initial crashes, a couple of relaunches and KeyCastr seems to be working fine. Nice for a free program.

Can't get it to launch at all. Get this error message:

http://tr.im/otg?grabup

Assistive Devices access is enabled, don't know what other than that to check.

I'm highly skeptical that the number of users of this software is as stated! Would iusethis.com really artificially inflate the popularity of its own product so it appears more popular??? At any rate, I really enjoy the iusethis website for what it is but the currency of its version numbers is not one of its strengths!

Hi Simonjm, AppFresh is not an application made by Marcus or me, but by the people at Metaquark. AppFresh just use iusethis data to track app updates. It also let users manage their iusethis account, meaning that almost all AppFresh users registers AppFresh as an app that they use. In relations to all mac-users, AppFresh's user numbers are artificially high, but for the mac-users that use iusethis, I would say that it is quite accurate.

On how we handle versions; it is one of our greatest challenges, and something that we will find a better solution to.

zxspectrum: We're aware of that. That's why we're calling it a development preview and only let you opt-in on automatically replacing software. Software naming, packaging and version numbering is something where only very few common practices exist and correctly dealing with everything that floats around is not an easy task.

simonjm: Arne already correctly stated the relationship between AppFresh and iusethis. It's true that we let users register AppFresh as used with their iusethis account as soon as they enter their account information (an optional step). This doesn't lead to wrong data, since the user is obviously using AppFresh, but it puts AppFresh in a position where you can't compare its use count to other apps' use counts. Also, we have great interest in up-to-date version information on iusethis too, and we're working with Arne and Marcus to improve the situation. For example, you can use the version reporter tool in AppFresh to report a more recent version (which is not directly inserted, though, to prevent fraudulent submissions).

System fault BOOM CRASH REBOOT on the last version. First time in a very, very long time that I had to reboot for something other than updating system files.

@geotaylor: We're not aware of any occasion where AppFresh would crash the whole system. Could you please email us at support@metaquark.de and describe what was going on in more detail? If you have a crash log or anything else that's more precise than BOOM CRASH REBOOT, please also attach it.

Great job on the 0.6 update - the performance and stability both took a major step forward with this new release! I've been using AppFresh for about six months now and find it to be an indispensable tool for keeping track of the 180 (and growing) applications in my Mac arsenal. Many thanks!

Currently, there is an issue related to Microsoft AutoUpdate 2 (shipped wit MS Office 2008) that, if installed, keeps AppFresh from working properly. If you have that installed and AppFresh keeps crashing, please try ‘defaults write de.metaquark.appfresh IUEnableMicrosoftAutoUpdate FALSE’ in your console and start AppFresh. A fix will be released soon.

Please update to AppFresh 0.6.2 or download it from http://metaquark.de/download/appfresh - if you ran ‘defaults write de.metaquark.appfresh IUEnableMicrosoftAutoUpdate FALSE’ please now run ‘defaults delete de.metaquark.appfresh IUEnableMicrosoftAutoUpdate’ once to restore default behaviour - it doesn’t crash anymore.

Why does it delete my ENTIRE desktop when it's done installing?

dbreunig, please update to AppFresh 0.6.3, which fixes this problem. You can also recover your Desktop contents from the Trash.

Updates don't work anymore. Something is downloaded somewhere, but nothing really happens at all...

@hbokh please update to 0.7, this problem has been fixed

Every time I scan the applications, it finds another copy of front-row. Also, some applications like DVD Player and iPhoto show how many people use it, but I only have the option to "add" the application, even though I've registered them to my profile.

Great and invaluable app, but still got some bugs to work out. Keep on working on developers!

Hmmm... ClamXav found Exploit.URLSpoof.gen in ~/Libary/Application Support/AppFresh/PersistentStore.sqlite on my system.

First let me say I find your program very promising. But I encountered a problem with the Big Bang Board Games included with my MacBook: even when I group the individual applications and change the iUseThis identifier to "Big Bang Board Games" the group or individual programs show as "Not listed on iusethis.com".

Very great app. The only issue I got with it is about Apple's softwares. Many shows users count, but with an "Add" button. Some others doesn't even display users counter.

This program has tons of promise, but I still prefer the simple "Application Update" widget. AU isn't as feature rich but it's bulletproof. I'll be back to check on AppFresh soon as I'm sure it's on its way to being a solid app..