Everytime I start my macbook I have boom automatically startup in my login items, however, when my mac boots up, an error says "Boom.app" is damaged and can't be opened. you should move it to the Trash. I am using the trial version at the moment. Now, if I hit cancel and start it manually it works just fine but I know there is an issue. Any assistance would be helpful
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Regarding your query, have you downloaded Boom prior to the recent download or have you migrated your system? It seems that there is an additional copy of Boom in your system which might be causing the error to pop up. What you need to do is, uninstall Boom within the app and reinstall a fresh copy (i.e via settings->preference->uninstall) also do a spotlight/Finder search for Boom and delete additional Boom copies from your system.
http://zoooot.com/1573/boom-v1-7-and-os-x-10-8-3
http://zoooot.com/1598/update-on-boom-v1-7-and-os-x-10-8-3
Regarding your query, please make sure to have only one copy of Boom in your system, also please make sure that you install Boom app in Application folder itself and not in any subfolders.
Lets install Boom from scratch. But first, please uninstall Boom within the app and delete all the Boom copies from your system.
Do you see Boom icon on menu bar? If so, then please uninstall Boom within the application i.e settings>preference>uninistall. If you are not able to find Boom icon in menu bar then please check for BoomDevice.kext in the following path System/Library/Extensions (refer screen shot), if present delete it and also delete Boom app, now ensure that BoomDevice has been removed from System Sound Preference (under output). Next restart the system.
Or
Please enter the following sudo command in Terminal.
1) Open Terminal
2) Enter the command
sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/BoomDevice.kext/
Ensure that BoomDevice has been removed from System Sound Preference, If not run the command again
3) Delete Boom app
Make a fresh install of Boom.
Please install Boom from the following link:
http://www.globaldelight.com/boom/download/1.1x/boom.dmg
If you have purchased Boom from Mac App Store then please re-install from App Store itself. Make sure that you use the same account which was used on purchase.
Still if you have any issues, then please contact our Support Team for the uninstall script to remove Boom completely from your system.
james@Jamess-iMac: ~
$ sudo killall Boom
Password:
No matching processes were found
james@Jamess-iMac: ~
$ sudo kextunload -q /System/Library/Extensions/BoomDevice.kext
james@Jamess-iMac: ~
$ sudo kextstat | grep Boom
james@Jamess-iMac: ~
$ sudo rm -rvf /System/Library/Extensions/BoomDevice.kext
/System/Library/Extensions/BoomDevice.kext/Contents/Info.plist
/System/Library/Extensions/BoomDevice.kext/Contents/MacOS/BoomDevice
/System/Library/Extensions/BoomDevice.kext/Contents/MacOS
/System/Library/Extensions/BoomDevice.kext/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings
/System/Library/Extensions/BoomDevice.kext/Contents/Resources/English.lproj
/System/Library/Extensions/BoomDevice.kext/Contents/Resources
/System/Library/Extensions/BoomDevice.kext/Contents
/System/Library/Extensions/BoomDevice.kext
james@Jamess-iMac: ~
$ sudo rm -rvf /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/VolumeBooster.component
[no error, but the file didn't exist]
james@Jamess-iMac: /Volumes/Super Duper
$ rm -rvf /Applications/Boom.app
/Applications/Boom.app/Contents/_CodeSignature/CodeResources
/Applications/Boom.app/Contents/_CodeSignature
/Applications/Boom.app/Contents/Info.plist
/Applications/Boom.app/Contents/MacOS/Boom
<---snip long list--->
After that I searched:
james@Jamess-iMac: /Library
$ sudo find . -type f -name '*Boom*'
./Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Plug-In Settings/Equalizer/Bass Boom Control.pst
./Application Support/GarageBand/Instrument Library/Plug-In Settings/Equalizer/Reduce Bass Boom.pst
./Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/iLife Sound Effects/Booms/Booming Reverse 01.caf
./Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/iLife Sound Effects/Booms/Booming Reverse 02.caf
./Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/iLife Sound Effects/Booms/Booming Rumble.caf
james@Jamess-iMac: /System
$ sudo find . -type f -name '*Boom*'
james@Jamess-iMac: /System
james@Jamess-iMac: ~
$ sudo find . -type f -name '*Boom*'
./Desktop/Boom Disables Audio Mountain Lion 10.8.1 - Forum.webloc
./Documents/Markdown/Boom.md
./Dropbox/notesy/MBA-Boom.txt
./Library/Logs/Boom.log
./Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/.Boom_2012-12-08-155724_Jamess-iMac.crash.plist
./Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/.Boom_2013-01-16-214522_Jamess-iMac.crash.plist
./Library/Preferences/com.globaldelight.Boom.plist
Should I delete ./Library/Preferences/com.globaldelight.Boom.plist ?
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After removing per above, I reinstalled with a fresh download from your Web site and rebooted.
Same error:
http://zoooot.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Boomalert.png
In the log:
Mar 22 01:18:22 Jamess-iMac.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Applications/Boom.app/Contents/Resources/BoomInstaller.app' [64181] for authorization created by '/Applications/Boom.app/Contents/Resources/BoomInstaller.app' [64181] (13,0)
Mar 22 01:18:22 Jamess-iMac.local com.apple.SecurityServer[15]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/usr/libexec/security_authtrampoline' [64198] for authorization created by '/Applications/Boom.app/Contents/Resources/BoomInstaller.app' [64181] (3,0)
Mar 22 01:18:22 Jamess-iMac.local sudo[64199]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/kextunload -p /System/Library/Extensions/BoomDevice.kext
Mar 22 01:18:22 Jamess-iMac.local sudo[64201]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/rm -rv /System/Library/Extensions/BoomDevice.kext
Mar 22 01:18:22 Jamess-iMac.local sudo[64203]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/cp -rv /Applications/Boom.app/Contents/Resources/BoomInstaller.app/Contents/Resources/AudioComponents/BoomDevice.kext /System/Library/Extensions
Mar 22 01:18:22 Jamess-iMac.local sudo[64205]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/BoomDevice.kext
Mar 22 01:18:22 Jamess-iMac.local sudo[64207]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/BoomDevice.kext
Mar 22 01:18:22 Jamess-iMac.local sudo[64209]: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/kextload /System/Library/Extensions/BoomDevice.kext
Mar 22 01:36:04 Jamess-iMac com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[146] ([0x0-0x1c01c].com.globaldelight.Boom[411]): Exited: Killed: 9
Regrading your query, could you please write to our Support Team for further help.
Sent to boom@globaldelight.com subject line: "Boom Feedback - Boom.app is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash - on startup on OS X v10.8.3/Boom v1.7"
We believe your issue has been resolved.
Please do provide us your feedback on what were the steps taken to resolve the issue.
Thank you.
2. Open "Activity Monitor" search for Boom, quit/force quit Boom.
3. In Terminal run:
osascript '/Applications/Boom.app/Contents/Resources/UninstallBoom.scpt'
osascript '/Applications/Boom.app/Contents/Resources/UninstallBoomForStd.scpt’
4. Deleted the Boom.app from Applications
5. Emptied Trash
6. Downloaded a fresh copy from http://www.globaldelight.com/boom/boom-download.php
7. Installed, set to start on login
8. Reboot
No error message this time. No idea why, it doesn't look like anything changed in the downloaded package.
Anyway, this fixed it.
thanks
James
PS: I updated my blog to reflect this fix: http://cloud.zoooot.com/NuWM