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"Donate for afloat" opens repeatedly

Open madvas opened this issue 9 years ago • 11 comments

After every boot, when I open application e.g Preview for the first time, it always opens this dialog:

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I click open and nothing happens. When I restart machine, it happens again. It's quite annoying. Happens with other applications too, but not with every. E.g with TextEdit it does it also. I'm using Yosemite. and Afloat 2.1.1

madvas avatar May 09 '15 08:05 madvas

Yep, happening here as well. Would love to know how to stop this from happening. Clicking on any option doesn't do anything and I even have afloat uninstalled and it keeps showing up.

gmogames avatar May 14 '15 17:05 gmogames

Hi there, 

I am curious… if you click on “Show Application” where does it take you?  Afloat, or perhaps SIMBL (or rather, whatever middleman you’re relaying on)?  I myself have the same Afloat I compiled ages ago (way before 10.9, possibly even earlier) and I have no such a popup.

f. On May 14, 2015 at 13:28:13, AppWish ([email protected]) wrote:

Yep, happening here as well. Would love to know how to stop this from happening. Clicking on any option doesn't do anything and I even have afloat uninstalled and it keeps showing up.

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mrfrankus avatar May 14 '15 20:05 mrfrankus

When I click "Show Application" this is what it opens

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madvas avatar May 14 '15 20:05 madvas

If I look into my Xcode project folder, I do see Donate files in there, however none of these ended up in the final/installed bundle, which looks rather very different from yours indeed: 

This is what my Info.plist looks like: 

Could you send me a copy of your Info.plist from your installed bundle?   (You might need to rename the extension else it could get blocked)

I get a feeling there will be hooks in yours that enable the loading of the donation alert. Note: I don’t want to be perceived as aiding in the disabling of donation nagware if this was intended to be part of the final product, so please don’t hesitate to chime in if I should refrain from pursuing this line of inquiry.

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On May 14, 2015 at 16:21:07, Matus Lestan ([email protected]) wrote:

When I click "Show Application" this is what it opens

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mrfrankus avatar May 14 '15 21:05 mrfrankus

My case, I completely deleted the afloat bundle, all afloat files I found in the hard drive, did a search for any "afloat" mentions inside of files, but I still keep getting this annoying donate for afloat window.

gmogames avatar May 20 '15 10:05 gmogames

Same problem here...but happens not just when I reboot. Randomly happens during normal work.

aangelinsf avatar Jun 01 '15 23:06 aangelinsf

Me to.. quite annoying. I would even donate to fix this... but nothing happens when I start the Donate app.

BTW: I installed Afloat using EasySIMBL buy following this guide and a comment here also showed a solution (I hope/think**).

  1. Start EasySIMBL.
  2. Click Show Plugin Folder and navigate to the Contents folder.
  3. Right click Afloat.bundle and click Show Package Content.
  4. Delete the Donate for Afloat app.
  5. Navigate into the Resoure/it.lproj folder.
  6. Delete Donate.nib, AfloatDonateFirstAlert.strings and AfloatDonateLastAlert.strings.

The content of the it.lproj and en.lproj folder now contains the same files (different sizes).

** I have not see the popup since. But I'm also not sure exactly when I got this popup. If it is not fixed of if I get other issues I'll promise to write here again. If I don't I consider this the solution :)

tjementum avatar Jun 11 '15 20:06 tjementum

I was able to fix the issue, and it's kind of the same solution as @tjementum .

Even after deleting everything related to afloat, I still had EasySIMBL installed. I opened and found a tab in there where there was another instance of afloat. I deleted and voila, no more annoying popup!

gmogames avatar Jun 11 '15 20:06 gmogames

@tjementum and after this solution "Keep Afloat" functionality still works?

madvas avatar Jun 11 '15 20:06 madvas

@madvas Yes... it still works. And I have not seen a popup in since.

tjementum avatar Jun 15 '15 10:06 tjementum

Thanks @tjementum, works. Also worked for these guys here

kachizukanne avatar Jun 22 '15 10:06 kachizukanne