Suspicious! - Akin Hobbs

Yes--suspicious indeed! And I have had problems with the last couple of updates to the point where I actually decided to uninstall ONYX and just use my OS X install disks to get my MBP back on track. I had even kept using ONYX despite typos throughout the interface in the latest releases. But if they can't spell correctly, it naturally makes you worry about their coding ability as well (as a subset of their attention to detail). This was a once-great app that I hope will be returned to its former glory in the 2.0 release.

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Saturday, September 20 2008 @ 12:56 PM PDT

Suspicious! - Akin Hobbs

Yes--suspicious indeed! And I have had problems with the last couple of updates to the point where I actually decided to uninstall ONYX and just use my OS X install disks to get my MBP back on track. I had even kept using ONYX despite typos throughout the interface in the latest releases. But if they can't spell correctly, it naturally makes you worry about their coding ability as well (as a subset of their attention to detail). This was a once-great app that I hope will be returned to its former glory in the 2.0 release.

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Saturday, September 20 2008 @ 12:56 PM PDT

Suspicious! - Titanium06

You know "Bug report"?? What's your problem exactly??
...and sorry for my bad english.

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Sunday, September 21 2008 @ 10:29 AM PDT

Suspicious! - geopick

Indeed...
The developer can't fix something if there is no report.
Also, Onyx is free. I suggest converting to shareware, charging ~US$15 and making this product even more competitive with those costing 5x this amount.

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Wednesday, September 24 2008 @ 09:28 AM PDT

Suspicious! - MacUser-4-ever

grh-akl,

In OS X, your Applications folder is not supposed to be on a separate partition. If you have 121 GB of apps, I'm surprised you don't have a lot more problems. Many apps won't run like that...many *Apple* apps won't run like that. It's a bad idea to hack around this.

No you can blame Apple for this, or realize that putting all of your apps where they belong is not a big deal, but it's not fair to criticize this app for your failure to use your Mac as Apple intended.

A 3rd party app will know what apps you have because their support files will still be in your root and/or user library. However, when it goes to find them, it won't be able to find them in your Applications folder, because you've hidden them in a way you weren't supposed to (again, if this bothers you blame Apple).

Furthermore, it should be pointed out that Onyx is running built-in scripts in OS X. If scripts are having problems when initiated by Onyx (such as finding apps), you can be sure they're having problems when activated via cron.

You've written a bad review.

Anyone who hasn't foolishly moved all of their apps to a new partition isn't going to experience the same problem as you.

"it seems very suspicious to me that several posters reported that version 1.9.7 is fatally-flawed yet one guy praises it to the heavens. Could he be the author in disguise?"

One brief version had a minor bug where it would not quit automatically. A handful of people posted about it here, but with 1,238,913 downloads from this site alone, this app is still getting 4.5 out of 5 rating. I highly doubt the praise came from the developer.

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Wednesday, September 24 2008 @ 02:49 PM PDT

Suspicious! - pascal25--2008

I'm a prof Mac consultant and I've been using Onyx from day one on thousands of Apple systems . I've never had problem with this app. As for the typos, the developer is making an effort to make this FREE app available to as many people as possible. You should respect and appreciate that and help him/her to correct these typos instead of blaming him/her for that.

Apps on a separate partition…you're asking for trouble !
If you don't know what you're doing, don't do it !

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Thursday, September 25 2008 @ 01:58 AM PDT

Suspicious! - JJJ @ versiontracker

This post proofs that we live in a time with lots of jerks around.

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Thursday, September 25 2008 @ 04:36 AM PDT