Just a quick THANK YOU for this! Makes life with Ace Addons MUCH easier!

You’re very welcome. The next release should be substantially better once I get it released

I just discovered this, and I want to say Thank You as well!

I really probably shouldn’t, I already have so much stuff to do, but I have to say I’m tempted to grab the source and start fixing issues

A big THX too. I found about this little program while browsing for a solution similar to WoWaceUpdater. I must say, its GUI is rather minimal but it does its job pretty well… and is very useful to me now.

maybe i’m slow, but i went around in circles and was unable to download this. where’s the download file?

@”Kevin Ballard: I really probably shouldn’t, I already have so much stuff to do, but I have to say I’m tempted to grab the source and start fixing issues”

Haven’t we all? It’d be most appreciated if you did though

@”Stephane: I must say, its GUI is rather minimal”

Yes, that’s true – I hope to improve this over the coming versions.

@”steve: where’s the download file?”
http://macaceupdater.googlecode.com/files/MacAceUpdater-0.3.dmg
This version allows you to check for updates to MAU from within MAU, so you shouldn’t need to find the dowload again

To all who say nice things – you’re welcome and thanks.

Cant thank you enough, this is what I have been waiting for since wow ace plug-in are pure genious.

I’m still having some issue with the “select outaded plug-in” which doesnt select anything with me, is it still under dev?

Again many thx

A big THX from me as well … can’t live without this anymore.

Just downloading the upgrade … MAU-Update from MAU sounds good to me

Another grateful player dropping by to say thanks a ton! If only there was something like this for my other AddOns.

First: Thx for writing the updater!

I found a problem:
- FuBar_GarbageFu is not detected, it’s installed, but does not show in list, so it may not be updated. I already deleted it (vie Finder) and reinstalled, but that did not help.

Feature request:
- Make Columns sortable, so sorting by Description or Name works
- Is it possible, to add Add-Ons not distributed by ACE, e.g. Atlas,…?

Again: Thanks a lot! Keep on Coding!

Another huge huge thank you, all the way from Hawaii. I just got a new mac and was dreading updating my Ace addons manually. You just made my night!

Aloha!

Love the add on. One simple request. Can you get the thing to sort alphabetically by name? TIA

Thanks for this. It’s great! I second the request for sortable columns. It would also be nice to improve the detection of installed plugins/versions. Most of my ace plugins don’t have anything in the installed column, even though they have changelog files that include the version number. Are you reading the version number from the TOC?

Doesn’t seem to be updating recently. Maybe an update is needed?

Hey there, great application. It works awesome! One thing to note: after a lot of use the _addonBackups folder and _downloads folder grow to enormous size. Mine are 355 MB and 80 MB respectively. Are these folders necessary for normal function? Can I delete them and MAU won’t forget which Ace2 mods I already have installed? Thanks in advance!

I ran it once it worked, it crashed, and on all subsequent runs will not find the addons that are old.

Essentially it worked 1 time, but crashed during, at the end of the process (many apps running at that time. G5 Quad.

I have erased Home\library\cache\Mac… and the app supposedly completely removing it but i cant get it to work again.

and PS – You rock for making this! I am just trying to relay my issue to help overall development.

Mine seems to be listing every Ace add-on that is out there, and isn’t identifying what I have installed. Also when I check boxes for things I want updated and click run, nothing appears to be happening. Any suggestions on what to do?

Big thanks for developing this.

Kyle: the server format was changed, 0.3.2 fixed this.
Glenn: feel free to nuke both dirs.
Ray: First steps, check that you’ve got the correct dir set for addons in MAU, and that you’re using http://files.wowace.com/ as the update URL, both with a trailing /
Metek:you need to use a trailing slash on the directory you set for your addons (yes, this sucks and I hope to fix this one of these days.

Hm, this thing don’t seem to work for me. The list is empty after refresh and checking all the preferences etc. The paths are ok. Any ideas? And yea I have 10.4.9 intel imac and loads of ace addons.

If it helps any, I’m having the crashing problem when I launch it as well.

This is from my console:

2007-05-31 13:02:10.430 MacAceUpdater[2246] Full URL
2007-05-31 13:02:10.431 MacAceUpdater[2246] Creating URL from:
2007-05-31 13:02:10.431 MacAceUpdater[2246] http://www.wowace.com/files/Postman/Postman-r26541.1016.zip
2007-05-31 13:02:10.431 MacAceUpdater[2246] Found changelog:
2007-05-31 13:02:10.431 MacAceUpdater[2246] changelog-libs
2007-05-31 13:02:10.431 MacAceUpdater[2246] 10
2007-05-31 13:02:10.431 MacAceUpdater[2246] 2147483647
2007-05-31 13:02:10.431 MacAceUpdater[2246] An uncaught exception was raised
2007-05-31 13:02:10.432 MacAceUpdater[2246] *** -[NSCFString substringWithRange:]: Range or index out of bounds
2007-05-31 13:02:10.432 MacAceUpdater[2246] *** Uncaught exception: *** -[NSCFString substringWithRange:]: Range or index out of bounds
May 31 13:02:11 My-computer crashdump[2247]: MacAceUpdater crashed

If it helps any, I’m having the crashing problem when I launch it as well.

This is from my console:

2007-05-31 13:02:10.430 MacAceUpdater[2246] Full URL
2007-05-31 13:02:10.431 MacAceUpdater[2246] Creating URL from:
2007-05-31 13:02:10.431 MacAceUpdater[2246] http://www.wowace.com/files/Postman/Postman-r26541.1016.zip
2007-05-31 13:02:10.431 MacAceUpdater[2246] Found changelog:
2007-05-31 13:02:10.431 MacAceUpdater[2246] changelog-libs
2007-05-31 13:02:10.431 MacAceUpdater[2246] 10
2007-05-31 13:02:10.431 MacAceUpdater[2246] 2147483647
2007-05-31 13:02:10.431 MacAceUpdater[2246] An uncaught exception was raised
2007-05-31 13:02:10.432 MacAceUpdater[2246] *** -[NSCFString substringWithRange:]: Range or index out of bounds
2007-05-31 13:02:10.432 MacAceUpdater[2246] *** Uncaught exception: *** -[NSCFString substringWithRange:]: Range or index out of bounds
May 31 13:02:11 My-computer crashdump[2247]: MacAceUpdater crashed

(Hopefully this didn’t double-post, since I got a server error the first time.)

@Marcus

I had this problem also and sorted it by changing the AddOns directory path to:

/Applications//World\ of\ Warcraft/Interface/Addons/

Thanks

Dave

thanks for the addon, im learning objective-c and maybe i will be able to add something to ur client even tho it works just perfect

Thanks so much for your macaceupdater. I know it is a “sideproject” and 1 among many, but wondering if you might be able to add a “Update Installed Addons” function if you do a new rev.

Thanks!

To anyone experiencing crashes at launch: I have a build at http://kismith.co.uk/tmp/MacAceUpdater-0.4.dmg which is much better, but which WILL ONLY WORK ON INTEL MACS. The only reason I haven’t released it yet is that I can’t work out why it doesn’t work on PPC, and my mac is intel.

to ‘wow addict’: some help would be great

to John: you can get the same effect by clicking “select outdated” and then “install”, but maybe I’ll add a quick option to do both at some point

2 issues I’ve noticed when using this great application:

1) Using any path other than “/Applications/World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns” will mean the installed addons aren’t detected, and thus you can’t use the “select outdated” feature. I worked around this by creating a symlink to my actual install path at the default location, and it appears to work fine after that.

2) Any chance you can add support for the package type addons, such as BigWigs and Quartz? They contain a shell script to expand out all the addons found in the archive, named something like “bigwigslod.sh” and so on. Right now, I just manually execute the script for packages that have been updated, otherwise it gets left in a half-and-half state. Note that WowAceUpdater handles these correctly, for reference.

Thanks for your work on this project!

Gareth:
You can use a different path by setting it in the options (and this is dramatically improved in the build I link above, where it will do sanity checking on the path you enter).

For the package addons, I’d need to have a bit of a look at this before I could commit to it, but it would be good.

I have access to a PPC for a short time longer (upgrading soon!). I’ll try to grab the 0.4 source and do a build to see if the results are different. I’ve been using your app nearly daily now–thanks! I’ve also been looking for an excuse to get some experience w/ Cocoa and might be able to help now and then when I get some free time.

“To anyone experiencing crashes at launch: I have a build at http://kismith.co.uk/tmp/MacAceUpdater-0.4.dmg which is much better, but which WILL ONLY WORK ON INTEL MACS. The only reason I haven’t released it yet is that I can’t work out why it doesn’t work on PPC, and my mac is intel.”

Works great on my intel macs (mbp & mp). Thank you!

Yeah, the latest version seems to handle different paths correctly, thanks! Any chance we can get a Universal Binary version? Some friends that use PPC systems are still having problems with the path.

This is a fantastic addon. Kudos!

On my G5 (ppc) I am not getting anything to occur when I hit the “Select Outdated Plugins”. I do see the version numbers listed next to the addons I have installed, so I can go down the long list and select them, then click “Install Selected Plugins” and that works fine. It just won’t find the ones that need updating for me.

Since 2 or 3 days I can’t use MacAceUpdater anymore, the column that contained the latest version now display the name of the dev that did the addon. I’ve been using http://www.wowace.com/files/ for the list url for a while and now it seems to have changed

Anyone got the same issue ? if not what’s wrong ?

Ps: tks for the soft

Just discovered this project and it’s an absolute godsend and takes the pain out of regularly updating my bulging addons folder. Have been using the 0.3.2 version, but will give 0.4 a whirl before my next WoW session as I’m on an Intel Mac.

Thanks very much for all the work you’ve put in on this.

Hi. I have the same problem… since 3 days I first had the dev name instead the latest version. since 1 day I don’t have any list at all… what can I do?

Cheers

Andreas

Thank you for this pretty cool addon!

I have the same problem as Thomas. Today it’s not working.
Could you please check the import ?

Just found that wowace redirects to http://files.wowace.com/ .. so that may be the problem that Thomas is having.

For me, I just installed the tool, and the list is always empty. I have set the addons location currently, but nothing is displayed. this is the same in 0.4 as well as in 0.3.2 . Any idea what I might need to do to see something ?

All help appreciated, as is the effort to produce what will hopefully be a really useful application.

thanks!

Yup files.wowace.com seems to have a new format now …
Note the url, that changed a while ago.
But macaceupdater is not working as is due to the changed format. Would be very very nice if you could fix that

/S

I’ve the same problem of Thomas, i’ve tried also with http://files.wowace.com/ but the problem remains the same.

Thanks for the soft and for your attention.

Having the same problem as Thomas, Andrew, Dario and two other guildees. Tried redirecting the updater to the new site name but ever since wowace changed it page layout “the god send” is more of a blank white window of sadness. Please check into this error.

using MacAceUpdater-0.4

ty
jeff

Hey guys, I’m having the same problem too I love MAU and hope she’s up again soon.

Eid

Ok, I’ve released a new version of MAU (0.5), which should be much happier (and more resilient to server changes). To the people who’ve (not here, I think), requested a donations button, there’s now one at the top of this page.

Massive hugs to Kev, Thanks for your prompt response!!! Thanks god I don’t need to fight with VMWare and Sharefolders any more!!! Or @*&*E^@^ pearl scripts etc etc!

Eid

Thank you soooo much. I LOVE MAU. Keep up the great work!

Thank you very much!

I love this app, however the latest version is totally crashing on my imac g5. I run it it takes 4 minutes to load it then is unresponsive and takes a further 10 minutes to force quite itself. Please look into this.

Thank you so much for the update!!

Hey Kevin, Just wanted to say thanks for the great work making MAU.

Just wanted to ask if there was a way we could get MAU to remember window settings? IE, if I drag the window out bigger or change the width of one of the columns these changes aren’t remembered by the program after closing and restarting MAU. I know, just a little thing but it would be awesome if its not too much trouble to fix this.

Cheers,

–Tobin

Tobin: yes! I’ve had a patch for that, and it’s sitting in my queue for 0.5.1 along withsome other nice things

Kevin:
Can’t thank you enough for this tool. Made my life soooo much easier. Unfortunately, it now consistently crashes on launch. The icon bounces in the dock for a few seconds then stops. I thought it maybe a permissions issue, so I repaired permissions, and tried launching it as root, but no luck. Don’t know why wowace had to go mess up a nice, simple 1-page format. Anyway, would soooo appreciate anything you can do to fix the issue. Thank you again for this tool!

-Alexis

Just threw you a little PayPal donation as thanks for a great tool.

Thanks very much for the donation (and to the others who have donated too), it makes me glad to know I’m not wasting my time keeping MAU ticking over when I don’t play WoW anymore.

As for the crash on startup, that’s probably a bad setting somewhere. Clearing out ~/Library/Preferences/uk.co.kismith.mau.plist should hopefully sort that out. Please let me know if it doesn’t

NO luck deleting pref:
~/Library/Preferences/uk.co.kismith.mau.plist

I am having the same problem on my intel Macbook pro.
Deleting the Library Prefs doesnt help.

Just a sidenote Macaceupdater 0.4 still runs – but without any addons due to
the change on http://www.wowace.com

Gregory, I had a similar problem with the software once. I noticed that it creates a couple of directories in the WoW addons directory that I think it uses to cache things. I dragged those into the trash, and when I restarted the program it recreated them and worked fine.

I’m sorry I don’t remember the names of the directories off the top of my head, and I’m at work right now so I can’t look it up.

Same problem. Version .5 crashes on startup. I deleted the pref file, removed the download folders and cleared the Macaceupdater folder from my caches folder. this is what Console tells me…

2007-09-25 12:44:07.751 MacAceUpdater[898] Registering Growl
2007-09-25 12:44:08.394 MacAceUpdater[898] An uncaught exception was raised
2007-09-25 12:44:08.394 MacAceUpdater[898] The XML parser could not parse the RSS data.
2007-09-25 12:44:08.394 MacAceUpdater[898] *** Uncaught exception: The XML parser could not parse the RSS data.

I see Growl is mentioned so I’ll disable it and see what happens.

Update:
I disabled Growl and its still crashing. I’m using a 2.4 MacBook Pro, OS 10.4.10.

Update (again):
MAU .5 is working! It looks like a restart did the trick. If a restart doesn’t fix it for you try deleting the Macaceupdater folder in the ~/Library/Caches folder. this may have done it but I’m not sure why a restart would have fixed it. Oh well, its working now. thank you Kevin!

A huge Thank You.

Everything works perfectly on my D2.0g 1st gen G5 tower.

thanks again

Chris

Update: No luck with any of the above guides, I tried totally deleting all preferences with appzapper, downloading and installing, still no luck. Just to let you know i am running:

iMac (Power PC) G5, 2.0 ghz
Mac OS X 10.4.10
Plenty of HDD space 60GB / 150GB

I updated to the most recent version of MAU and now all of the mods are listed according to build number, not alphabetically, and I can’t find any way to change this. This doesn’t matter if I’m just updating my current mods, but it makes it incredibly hard to find anything if I’m trying to install a new mod that someone has recommended. Is there any way to change this that I just don’t know about?

heya

very good work of you! made it easy to update ace2 addons, even after a patch day ^^

just wanted to say that you’ve forgotten to chance “Hide NewApplication” to “Hide MacAceUpdater”.its on top in the menu of “MacAceUpdater”.

greetz garelli

i cant seem to get mine to update to the new version of mac ace updater.. once i click relaunch and install it asks me to type in my password and then says “Macaceupdater does not have permission to write to the applications directory! Are you running off a disk image? If not, ask your system admin for help.” any ideas what i could do?

Thanks so much for this app! makes addons so much easier!

Just to confirm: I’ve had the same problem as jScott. Clearing my preferences, cache, and extra folders in my Addons Directory (then rebooting) got me back up and running.

Eid

I lied… It started once for me, then crashed after downloading. Never started again, despite cleaning things up.

Kev if you want I can send you my crash logs.

Eid

Keep up the great work. You are filling a spot with your program which does not have a replacement out there.

Thank you!

Your apps works wonderfully. U’ve made patch day bearable. Thnx so much!

While I appreciate the utility of MacAceUpdater most of the time, I’m stymied right now with the instantaneous crash, described so clearly above.Removing the suggested files and folders has made no improvement.

I was able to run MAU once last week after experiencing problems for a day, so I have a hunch that the ever changing format of the files.wowace.com site is a major issue.

From my console:
2007-10-04 17:31:51.035 MacAceUpdater[1216] Registering Growl
2007-10-04 17:31:52.400 MacAceUpdater[1216] An uncaught exception was raised
2007-10-04 17:31:52.412 MacAceUpdater[1216] The XML parser could not parse the RSS data.
2007-10-04 17:31:52.412 MacAceUpdater[1216] *** Uncaught exception: The XML parser could not parse the RSS data.
Oct 4 17:31:53 My-Computer crashdump[1217]: MacAceUpdater crashed

Bless you for making this app. It’s a real ray of sunshine beaming down on the mostly deserted streets of the WOW mac ghetto.

MacAceUpdater is a G-dsend, no question. There have been some recent problems though, so I figured it would help if I relayed some of those issues.

First: the crashing on start up. I’ve been able to avoid having it crash (although it takes a while to load) if I have every other open program hidden. But it still is a huge drain on resources to open, far more then I remember .3 or .4 being.

Slightly less annoying but still strange is that the “Select Outdated Plugins” button isn’t working. It’ll get a few, but it also misses about a quarter of the ones it needs.

Probably the least annoying, but the strangest, is that it no longer will allow me to sort by any normal means. It appears to be locked by latest version available, but that breaks down after a few pages of plugins. Scrolling by name was a big help, and I’d like to see that brought back.

MAU was working again for the last week, presumably after the RSS feed got fixed.

Or so I thought. I went through the list of add-ons after I had used the Select Outdated Add-ons button, and Install Selected Add-ons. I found 11 add-ons that were out of date, sometimes by many digits (as in 10000 release points). So, it looks like MAU may not have been doing anything other than giving me current versions of Omen/Threat/FuBar and leaving most of the other add-ons behind.

The crash on startup happens when the rss feed is unreachable (I need better error-handling indeed). The sorting and not noticing updates when the most significant figure changes are both fixed in SVN and will be in the next release.

The huge memory usage seems to be due to the RSS reader I used, but I’m not sure what to do about that — I certainly don’t want to go back to scraping the xml.

When do you think, next version will be available? What about offering a “release candidate” for those who are not that familiar with building apps on the mac, but like to live “on the bleeding edge”…

So it seems now that the “Select Outdated Plugins” option works again. The only thing that it seems to have trouble with is the strange numbering system that ace is now using for its updates (having things like x.13 being after x.6, instead of before like what any normal person would think). I don’t think its a huge deal, as usually the decimal upgrades are fixes that didn’t even need fixing just yet. But I figured you’d like to know that your code does indeed work

I’ve uploaded a new build which should do better with the numbering. I haven’t tested it on a PPC yet, but once I have done so I’ll update the appcast and it’ll get pulled down
If you want to try it anyway, just head over to http://macaceupdater.googlecode.com

Hey the sort by column works now! Yay! Great job!

Sorting doesnt work here.
MAU 0.5, MacBook Pro 2.4Ghz

MAU makes my gaming life better. Thanks for keeping it going!

Great little app, works perfectly. Thank you very, very much. You’ve got my money.

BigRedKitty

Since updating to OS X 10.5 (Intel iMac), it appears I cannot adjust column width on the “Installed” column for some reason. Columns can be reordered, and this problem persists regardless of where I move that column.

Sorting works, though, which is very nice!

Hi there and thanks for this wonderful adaptation – it’s really handy and my guildmates don’t joke on my any more now (“w00t? no ace updater – lol mac users” etc.). However, it would be really awesome if the updater could do two more things:

1. Auto-check for installed plugins and “one-click” update for _all_ installed addons (it’s kind of boring to click through all the plugins I want to update)

2. Auto-enable standalone ace libs (so the addon automatically installs the ace library package and tells all the plugins to use the standalone libs – would be great to save some disk space and nice to maintain)

Regards,
Michael

Versions 3.1 through 5.1 frequently crash on launch on my MBP. This does not happen all the time, but when it does, MAU will crash on launch as many times as you like, on consecutive launches. Nice reliable crashing.

It appears that when http://files.wowace.com/ is not accessable, MAU simply crashes at launch time.

Version 5.1 is working great.. sorting and digging thru odd versioning system to find all that need updating. Thanks!!!

The 0.5dmg version on 10.5 seems to crash after an update that actually downloads files. I’m not entirely sure if it fully completes or not. Downloading the source right now and gonna take a peek.

It’s a leopard issue; I’ll release an updated version which works with leopard soon.

I recently ran into a problem during launch. This just started happening and may be because of the recent security update apple came out with.. It is an intermittent issue.

I hope you keep supporting this software it makes life so much easier.

Mike

Just curious where you are on that leopard update you mentioned on December 20th, 2007.

Any ETA for the new version? Getting the addons manually is getting tiresom :p

GJ on the app BTW… love it

Have a problem launching the macaceupdater after patch 2.4.

yesterday everything was still ok. i’m confused

I’m having the same issue mentioned by Puuh. A fix would be really appreciated. Thanks a lot.

This does nothing for me, it launches occasionally, crashes frequently and sees then doesn’t see the addons I have installed.
I just don’t get what 0.5 does, there is a list of addons but I can’t get it to check the ones I mark (being as it won’t scan for the addons I have installed) and then update those. It just seems to be a list of addons.

[...] resources. SVN. Jira Bugs Fisheye SVN Log Tutorials …http://www.wowace.com/wiki/WinAceUpdaterSongs of Doom &187 Mac Ace UpdaterMac ace updater is an application for Mac OS X which manages/installs/updates ace … this is what I [...]

hey i just remembered you saying you werent working on this anymore, having said that, i tried opening it for the first time ever, having only just found it and….i cant so ill add the error i got, and it will b interesting if anyone else has the same problem.
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okay i wont, it would double the length of the page but i will email it to any curious. have it in html or .doc ( textedit is great ) or can save in roch text.

Wowace have taken their repositories that drive MAU offline – all updates that use the old methods will no longer work. Some people have expressed an interest in keeping MAU going, but at the moment it’s dead in the water.