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Originally posted by thalo:
There was a recent Suitcase update from Extensis. To accomodate the new intel Macs and bug fix.

A few days later, they had to put out another one because of a serious problem... like the fonts you have on your permanently activate list wouldn't load, would come up as corrupt, and not display properly. Oh guys? I've said this before, but it's as if nobody tests anything these days. Some updates are such a friggin' mess, you wonder how they ever got signed off on to go out the door.

Suitcase, probably in my top THREE of most essential Mac products, has been struggling ever since OS X came out. Stuff on it is constantly going south, and I can't recall a time when the application EVER consistently quit when it was supposed to, as during a shutdown. It does it only when the app is freshly installed, or after you delete all the font cache files.

But whatever pooches them, happens again immediately as you use the program.

Suitcase used to be a simple, hardworking, reliable utility. Now it's pretty much a beast. The auto-activation of fonts sometimes grinds down so slow that it ain't even worth it. Sometimes I'll open a Quark document (with fonts I know are already loaded!) and the suitcase auto activation has me in graybar land long enough to walk down to the corner for coffee.

It really sucks when some of the software you REALLY need to rely on, like OS X, like Suitcase, like Quickeys, and on and on... really haven't been up to snuff since OS X debuted. It's a cryin' shame brothers.