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Bug Reports / Re: Forum search database erro...

Last post by Sander Berents - November 07, 2024, 09:45:17 PM

I resolved this a while ago. Search is working.

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Bug Reports / Re: Obs v2.1 QuickLook Install

Last post by Sander Berents - November 07, 2024, 09:41:02 PM

Our posts crossed. Observatory registers FITS, FIT and FTS. Look for an application that registers FIT incorrectly. I can open FIT files with Observatory, and they show up correctly in Quick Look.

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Bug Reports / Re: Obs v2.1 QuickLook Install

Last post by Sander Berents - November 07, 2024, 09:35:53 PM

Since you mentioned your intend to upgrade to macOS 15.2 beta, do you sometimes install beta macOS versions on your main system? You shouldn't. If you want to try out a macOS beta, install it on an external SSD. If nothing but PixInsight shows up for FITS files, your system's LaunchServices database is likely corrupted. You may need to use lsregister to rebuild it. You first make sure that the system allows Observatory once again to open FITS files. After that, I expect Quick Look to work again as well.

For example, on my macOS 14 Sonoma system, when I enter

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -dump | grep -i fits | grep uti

I see many gov.nasa.gsfc.fits items listed. That is the correct UTI for FITS files. If your FITS related UTIs look like com.somecompany.fits or all.fits.is.mine in there, anything that is not gov.nasa.gsfc.fits, then you have software on your system that incorrectly registers its FITS file support, stealing away access from other Applications. PixInsight doesn't register an UTI for FITS files, it just registers support for the file extension, so it is more lenient. Observatory does, because of its Quick Look and Spotlight extensions.

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Bug Reports / Re: Obs v2.1 QuickLook Install

Last post by fsantore - November 07, 2024, 09:33:28 PM

OK, additional progress.  My image sets were generated by MaximDL on a Windows 11 machine.  They have the suffix '.fit'.  Changing the suffix to '.fits' makes opening in Observatory work, as well as QuickLook functionality.  I don't know when this migration to .fit occurred, but I would wonder if this is a valid FITS identifier.  Thanks.

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Bug Reports / Re: Obs v2.1 QuickLook Install

Last post by fsantore - November 07, 2024, 02:14:18 PM

I now think the problem is Observatory cannot open a FIT file on my system.  The exact error message:  "The document "2022 OA51.00917.fit" could not be opened. Observatory cannot open files in the "FIT Document" format."

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Bug Reports / Re: Obs v2.1 QuickLook Install

Last post by fsantore - November 07, 2024, 11:52:33 AM

OK, some progress.  Selecting the information icon in your new indicated path did show two unselected Observatory QuickLook choices.  But enabling these and restarting did not resolve the problem.  Right clicking a FITS image does offer to open in PixInsight as previously stated.  Attempting to change this default using 'other' says Observatory cannot open a FIT image.  Note that my image is on iCloud, but downloaded locally.

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Bug Reports / Re: Obs v2.1 QuickLook Install

Last post by Sander Berents - November 07, 2024, 10:11:32 AM

Sorry for the confusion, but I was typing my reply on macOS 14 Sonoma. Apparently in macOS 15 Sequoia Apple moved it to System Settings > General > Login Items & Extensions. In System Settings, search for "Extensions" and you will find it.

Quick Look Extensions have nothing to do with kernel extensions.

Right clicking a FITS image in Finder should list Observatory under "Open With". If it does not, it most likely means that you have software on your system that registers its FITS support incorrectly. Tycho had that problem in the past, and more recently FITS Preview also introduced this problem, which was resolved in FITS Preview 5.3. One user reported that a very old copy of Pixelmator that would not even start anymore on his computers was the culprit for him.

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Bug Reports / Re: Obs v2.1 QuickLook Install

Last post by fsantore - November 07, 2024, 10:05:14 AM

Also, a couple comments from having looked at the Tailspin45 Discussion posts.  Since Full Disk Access seemed to work for him, I added Observatory but no luck.  You indicated this was not required, so subsequently I reverted to this removed.  'qlmanage -m plugins|grep fits' in Terminal returns no results for me.

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Bug Reports / Re: Obs v2.1 QuickLook Install

Last post by fsantore - November 07, 2024, 09:38:42 AM

Sander- To report back in, I did confirm Obs v2.1 is the only copy installed on my MacBook Pro M2 Max.  System Settings>Privacy & Security did not reveal an Extensions selection.  I found this on the web:
https://docs.zepp.com/docs/1.0/guides/faq/apple-silicon/, but "Allow user management of kernel extensions from identified developers" was already enabled.  Since we had some prior QuickLook conflicts with Tycho that you kindly worked out, I checked there and QuickLook also did not work.  For info, right clicking a FITS image from the finder opens the generic window with an upper right button now offering to open the FITS file in PixInsight.  I may have had a PixInsight update since this previously worked.  Finally, again for info, Settings>Privacy & Security does have a Security section alerting 'Some system software requires your attention before it can be used'.  But Code Obsession is not listed there.

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Bug Reports / Re: Obs v2.1 QuickLook Install

Last post by Sander Berents - November 06, 2024, 09:05:09 PM

The Observatory 2 Quick Look extension works fine on macOS 15.1. I haven't tested macOS 15.2 beta yet, but I see no reason why it would not work. Apple removed support for the old Quick Look generators like what was used by Observatory 1 from macOS 15. Observatory 2 doesn't contain these generators anymore, and solely uses the new Quick Look extension APIs.

Apple forgot to update or replace the qlmanage command in macOS 15. It only supports the old generators, not the new extensions. So the extensions don't show up in there. The tool might still be useful with figuring out what application or plugin causes a conflict.

Make sure to run Observatory at least once after updating it to make macOS detect the Quick Look extension. If you have multiple releases of Observatory or ObservatoryDemo on your system, remove them. Check System Settings > Privacy & Security > Extensions > Quick Look and check that Observatory's Previews & Thumbnails extensions are enabled there. A reboot may be necessary when toggling that. It shouldn't, but on at least one of the 15.1 betas I tested it was necessary.