Comments on: Beware of LEGO Mindstorms NXT on Mac OSX

By: Phil Watson

Phil Watson — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:50:21 +0000

Hi
Sorry I didn’t catch up with you guys earlier – spent a very frustrating Christmas 2009 with lego support and they still (still Vibeke) have not solved for OSX10.6
I have had to regress to my father’s windows laptop so that my son can use his Christmas present – I’m not smart enough to set up a virtualised machine !!
Stuck waiting for Lego support to issue a fix…

By: ERICK

ERICK — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:15:48 +0000

HEY BRO, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ADVERTISMENT, I WAS ABOUT TO INSTAL THAT [STUFF] ON (IN) MY MAC. GRACIAS

By: Piers

Piers — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:59:11 +0000

I’ve just had this exact affliction happen to me :(

It wasn’t until I took my computer in to have the Apps recovered that I discovered this blog. The worrying thing is Vibeke M at the Mindstorms dept. at Lego still claims that she had never heard of any similar problems.

I’m really disappointed with the way my case was handled not to mention the £70 it cost to have my Mac looked at and the inconvenience of having permanently lost files.

By: David C

David C — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:47:40 +0000

Hi Brian / all;

This issue has been resolved on versions of NXT software after 1.0.

BR,

David

By: Brian Adkins

Brian Adkins — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:15:13 +0000

@david: Lego has acknowledged the problem. Under no circumstances should an uninstall script delete all of a user’s applications!

By: david

david — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:34:16 +0000

So it was your screwing around and not letting the installer do what it was meant to do. Every program I ever installed on my MAc asks for an admin pass.

By: David Herlein

David Herlein — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:01:04 +0000

I have had the exact same problem with my mac mini…same setup but I called lego several times and they have done nothing for me

By: Brian Adkins

Brian Adkins — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:49:04 +0000

@Ronny thanks for the note. I believe the non default location was a factor. When I initially installed the software I didn’t want to give it the admin password, so I thought by installing it in my personal Applications directory it wouldn’t require the admin privileges. That didn’t work (it still wanted the admin pswd), and apparently in the process the uninstall got confused. How hard is it for them to check the uninstall from a non-default location? :(

The only reason I ran the uninstall (instead of just dragging files to the trash) was to uninstall the bluetooth drivers, but apparently the uninstall doesn’t even do that.

Bottom line is I think I’ll use an old unimportant machine or Windows in a virtual machine to install the software next time.

By: Ronny S

Ronny S — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:21:33 +0000

As far as I know this issue only occours in MINDSTORMS NXT 1.0 for Mac OS X if you install in a non default location. Cheers, Ronny S