Completely bizzarre OS3.5 problems ...

[drwho]

Hi Folks,

On my A3000 I have OS3.5 installed and for some reason I cannot open any of my Prefs programs. Any time I try and open anything in the Prefs drawer I get an error stating that the program requires "resource.library v44+".

Running 'version' from a Cli reports:

Resource.library 44.102

Anyone know what gives here?

Thanks in advance,
- Mike

[Karlos]

OS3.9 has a similar problem at times.

There's nothing wrong with the resource.library, failure is the result of missing gadget classes that weren't installed for some reason or another.

From your 3.5 CD, manually copy the workbench3.5/classes/gadgets/ contents to your installed classes/gadgets.

If you installed any boingbag updates since then, make sure you reinstall them as the above step will naturally overwrite some of the gadget classes with older versions.

[drwho]

Cool!!!

That worked like a charm. Thanks for the speedy help!!

- Mike

[Karlos]

No problem. I'm often up at silly o'clock :-D

[Noster]

Hi

I've had the same problem after installing an old AmiFTP version from Aminet.
It has overwritten some gadget classes and after that the Genesis TCP/IP stack won't start any more :-(
Fortunately I own a tape drive and have had an actual backup :-)

But good to know, if I someday see the "Cannot open resource.library" requester again...

Noster