I Would Cocoa If The Project Viewer Worked

In their recent blog post on improvements to Second Life, Linden Lab point to an interesting new viewer for Mac users, the Cocoa Project Viewer. However, as Mikki Miles points out in a post on the official forums, the current release of this project viewer does not work.

However, if you’ve used the project viewer before, then there is hope, because in yet another example of how collaboration is a good thing, Siona Qinan posts a workaround:

I found a fix on another forum (a post from “Eris” on a forum that covers Second Life and the whole Universe). Apparently the arguments.txt file is bad – replacing it with one from an earlier build did the trick for me.

 Right click, “Show Package Contents”, open Resources folder and replace the argument.txt file.

Unfortunately I don’t have an earlier build, but for those who do have an earlier build, here’s a way of using the new cocoa viewer release.

Now this is exactly why I find the Jira changes annoying, Siona and users would be unaware of this fix if this has been reported on the Jira, because only a select few would be able to read it. However as this is on the forum, people can share information. The Jira changes really are extremely unhelpful, I have no idea why Linden Lab steadfastly refuse to acknowledge they’ve dropped the ball here.

Collaboration is good, it should be positively encouraged, Linden Lab, please take note of how users can help each other when they’re allowed to discuss issues, the workaround would ideally be on the Jira and viewable to all.

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