sbken Posted September 26, 2008 Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 I'm using Retrospect 6.1.230 with Leopard 10.5.5. I just discovered that when I'm using Retrospect and I click on "Help" in the menu bar I'm taken to a Spotlight box. Previously,10.4.X, when I clicked on "Help" the dropdown menu displayed "Retrospect Help" and, via my Browser, I could select various error topics such as the meaning of specific error codes. Is this lack of the Retrospect Help a bug related to Leopard? :confused2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted September 26, 2008 Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 What is your default web browser? Help is HTML based and your web browser should be opening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbken Posted September 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 My default Browser is the latest version of Camino. When I was using 10.4.X that was the same default Browser (Camino) but the Retrospect Help always opened in Safari and I could never figure out to change that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted September 26, 2008 Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 What happens when you change your default browser back to safari? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallMeDave Posted September 26, 2008 Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 Retrospect's help is simply a website (a folder of html and css files) that lives at: /Applications/Retrospect 6.1/Retrospect.app/Contents/MacOS/Retrospect Help/ The actual .html files have old-style Type/Creator codes (TEXT/MOSS), probably left over from Retrospect's cross platform (OS X and OS 9) days. Or maybe there's some other reason, having to do with how the Retrospect Help menu is used to call up these web pages. > I click on "Help" in the menu bar I'm taken to a Spotlight box. Leopard's help menu has changed, to allow a Spotlight looking text entry box to reveal menu items in any program. Try it in other things, you'll see it looks the same. Beneath the text entry box you'll find the familiar "Retrospect Help" menu item. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbken Posted September 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 Thanks to your comment I've resolved the problem! First I changed the default Browser to Safari and, yes, "Retrospect Help" appeared. I then changed the default Browser back to Camino and clicking on Help in the menu bar opened Safari and Retrospect Help appeared. Until I did this back-and-forth switch of Browsers Help didn't appear. Thank you, Robin. :tongue2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbken Posted September 26, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 26, 2008 Dave: Thanks for your insight on the Safari issue. See my reply to Robin Mayoff above. Initially, Retrospect Help did not appear as shown in your figure. It does now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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