Hi Roy! I’ve been trying to install WTL 2009 unsuccessfully on my Leopard system. I installed the X11 package and still no success. The WTL installs correctly, but then gives the message: “Watchtower Library has experienced a problem and cannot continue.” I saw on your projects site that 1.3 was to solve this, and I downloaded it too, but the issue remains. The same thing happens in Crossover.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

FLD

Thanks a lot for your program. I’ll liketo use WTLib on my iMac.

Hi Roy, thanks for the nice tool you made. I use it on Snow leopard with WT08 in Dutch and English and it works great. Unfortunately it does not work completely in Russian. I cannot type text in the search box. I started up notepad (using winefile) and I cannot type in russian there as well. It does not type anything, so not just unrecognizable hieroglyphs. It should be possible, on wine on Linux it works fine, and on wine when I build it myself on Leopard it worked as well. If you have any pointers I might help debugging the problem. Thnks again for your work, Alex

I installed WT Lib on iMac 10.6.2 (Snow) with no installation problems reported, however, I can’t get the WTLib to run after the install. I am running in 64 bit mode, is that possibly what is causing the problem? I haven’t tried it in 32 bit, but wondered if your program support 64 bit, since it is usable in Snow.
Thanks for thinking of the ‘rest of us’ who Think Different!

Mark

Hi Roy,

I guess there must have been an installer error on the first try. I uninstalled everything and now it runs perfectly!

Thanks,
Mark

Hi Laurel. Safari is not the problem. It will download the program but once it completes you see the application which you drag into your applications folder.

If you need help you can find a step by step guide in the video section on this site. If you still have a problem, contact my hubbie Roy at his AIM or Jabber address shown above via iChat.

We are on the GMT+0 time zone.

Sonny, If you’re referring to Majestic Software’s Kingdom Hall Schedules program, you can integrate this with Watchtower Library for Mac. Please see the FAQ answer to the question Can I run other programs with Watchtower Library for Mac?

Had difficulty uninstalling WT library 2008 & installing WT Library 2009. Managed to install by deleting old Crossover program and moving to trash WTL in applications support and applications then doing clean install using copy CD from original.

Xavi, You’ll find drive_c at Library/Application Support/Watchtower Library relative to your home directory.

Maurice, I’ve adjusted the instructions making it clearer that you need to close the library windows but not the app before inserting the CD-ROM.

Abigail, Thank you. I’m glad it’s working for you!

Hi Roy
Just downloaded the program & installed WTLib 2009. So far, works great! (Macbook/Snowleopard 10.6.2) Thank you very much for your work in doing this, it is much appreciated for those of us who prefer OS X, hope you don’t mind me putting the word out to other brothers who are Mac users (even though this may create more work for you).

John Parete
Woodbridge Congregation
Canada

Dawn, Thank you. Hope you enjoy using your new computer.

John, No problem there. I’m happy to help others too if I can.

Marie-Claire, Glad this version is working for you. It’s a pleasure to be of help.

Dear Tom, It sounds like a CD corruption issue. Could you try another CD, any edition, just to see?

Thank You for this… just loaded WTLIB09 onto my MBP, works great.

Dear Tyra, Sorry to hear about your difficulty. Have you launched the app first?? Once in the Applications folder, you need to double-click the app itself so that it’s icon appears in the dock. Then you can insert the CD.

Hi Roy, thanks for putting this together. I’d spent a while trying to get the WT library running through Wine but I’m not very good with wine. I’m looking forward to trying out your app but the links seem to be dead. Not sure if it’s just me (I’m not at home to test on my home network) but if it’s not, I thought I’d better let you know in case you weren’t aware.

i installed 2008 wtlib and upgraded to 2009 wtlib it did not give me an option to remove my wtlib 2008 and now when i turn it on it opens 4 windows 2 with wtlib2008 and 2 with wtlib2009 it probably something i have done wrong, but im not sure how to correct it. It is wonderful of you to take time out of your life to make this software and to answer these questions so thank you very much.

It worked!! very nice!! So now we are waiting for a version for iphone… ;-)

Anna, You will need to change the Browser Text font via the Library>Properties panel (F2 shortcut) to a font with Hanzi.

You have totally made my day. This program works perfectly on my MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard. Now I can stop to virtualize Windows XP in VirtualBox just for the WTL.

Cheers mate

Dear Thiago, Do you see a Watchtower option in the Applications menu?

It would be good to mention that before running the install program one needs to quit the X11 app if it is running. If the X11 is running the install fails with: “Xquartz: start_x11_server: (ipc/mig) server died” Once I quit out of X11 the install went successful. Thanks for putting this package together – it works well.

Hi, thanks so much for putting this together, I am really looking forward to using WT CDROM on Mac and Mac only.
I installed it using the Japanese version, installation itself happened but during installation and after (the actual WT library), I cannot actually read the text, as it is displayed as series of little squares, instead of Japanese font. Some parts are in japanese (like the list of the books) but when I double click on the book title, the contents of the book shows up in the main window as series of little squares again.
Would you happen to know what can be done to fix this??
Thanks!!

Hey Roy,

Her your brother from the Netherlands. Yesterday i was really excited to find your app. I followed all your instructions after installing the latest version. Even installed the new X11 and relaunched my Imac 10.5.8. The application does not launch. When i drag the setup.exe from the original CD in to my dock icon it doesn’t do nothing : ( . DO i need additional software? Im I doing something wrong. I realy like to hear your remarks. I can not waith to launch the CD on my own computer. Thanks a lot!

Hi Roy,

I have 2 G-4 computers (1 desktop and PowerBook G-4) does your software work on these . . . I downloaded and installed it, but it doesn’t work. Also I have Virtual PC running on my computer and I tried loading directly from the Watchtower Library CD . . and it failed. I get a failed coping files error when it is copying the data files. . . I have been running previous versions of WTL since the beginning. . . Virtual PC is no longer supported by Microsoft.

This program has worked great, only ran into one strange snag. Installed my a mac mini with a Samsung scx-4300 printer and 10.6. When printing from WTL, the printer says “no paper, add paper”. If you put a sheet in the manual feed it prints out fine. The printer prints fine from all mac applications. It’s as though it thinks it’s getting a print job for a different paper size. Checked that it thinks it has letter in it’s tray and that WTL was set for letter. Tried the regedit hack for printing to preview, that didn’t work. Tried editing the generic.ppd in the wine folder inside of WTL4mac package and changed default paper from A4 to Letter and still no change in behavior. Have come across a few items on the google that state that some cups filters do A4 for paper size and some printers get stubborn and will not print to letter, they want A4. Not sure how to address this.

Any thoughts?

Thanks again for the great app.

bh

I have installed the WT L on my Mac Pro with Leopard Snow 10.6. Anytime I try to open the program there is a gray screen that results impossible to get rid of. I have to pretend that I am restarting to be able to close the window because once I ave the gray screen apple menu disappears. I uninstalled reinstalled several times with the same problem. Would you help me please. Thank you.

Thanks all for your kind encouragement. Sorry that Roy and I haven’t answered comments for a while.

Jurgen, Good idea. However Roy is planning a fix for this. He is hoping to avoid the crossover between WT Library for Mac and X11.

Motoko, You need to go into the Library properties (within the Library menus) and change the font to one that supports Japanese. It defaults to Arial but try Arial Unicode MS instead.
However there is also a problem with the input method. At the moment you will need to type Japanese into a separate window then copy and paste it into WT Library for Mac. Roy is working on a fix for this problem.

Mano, Sorry that you are having a problem with the installation. Hopefully the video here can be of some help. If not please feel free to get back to us.

Ilja, Roy’s suggestion is to first of all try following the video mentioned above. Two things need to happen, first you need to launch the Mac application. You can tell it is running by the ‘spotlight’ shown underneath the doc icon. If you aren’t seeing that, then there is a problem with X11. Second you need to install the Library itself. If that is not happening, try dragging Setup.exe to the dock icon.

Blake, Sorry but something has changed in the latest version of Wine that means that the print to Preview doesn’t work anymore. But you’ll be glad to know that Roy is working on it :-)

a_m, To fix this problem we need to help you reset the defaults because it sounds like this was switched off in a previous version, in which case it will remain off. So here’s what you do. Open the program called Terminal and type in the following: defaults delete uk.me.royratcliffe.Watchtower\ library. Press enter and then relaunch the app.

Richard, This has happened once before to a lovely brother in Hawaii. The answer is directly above in our reply to a_m. Enter this, relaunch, and the grey screen of death will not return!!!

Thank you so much for this work! You don’t know how long I’ve been waiting for this!

Your Brother in Tucson, AZ, USA!

Any remote chance your program works on an old powerbook g4?

i have tried to install wtlib about 5 times. i download it from your link. i drag to my applications folder. i try to open it, it just bounces up and down up down in the dock until it just stops. nothing happens and i have to force quit. what’s wrong? i’m running leopard 10.5.8 on a mac pro tower.

Mahalo! This is a big help.

Wow… thank you so absolutely much. Years… literally, I’ve been waiting and praying and every single release I run home hoping there’s a mac port. I’ve always kept a PC in the house for the solitary reason of running the Library, now, except for the TMS manager that I use, I no longer have to be locked to my windows box.

Yaaayyy! Thanks for your effort. It’s wonderful.

Bonus, we don’t have to juggle who gets to use the library anymore, we both can now!

i am brand new to mac. i am most likely doing something wrong but here’s my case… i have a macbook pro unibody i download the disk image from your website and the drag icon to application then i insert the cd-rom (2009) then nothing happens. i have tried deleting from the hard drive the library the installing everything again and i think i’m making every thing worse. please help i’m starting to think i’m hopeless:(

p.s is there a way for someone to remotely control my computer to install it for me? not sure if it would works in mac?

p.s i’ve been pioneering for two years and finally i’m sixteen and get to go to school. this program would make it so much easier for me to study.. thank you for all you loving hard work its much appreciated

look forward to hearing from you.
sincerely your brother patrick
email: patickconely@yahoo.com

Roy, Just want to send out a big thank you for all your work. I installed 2008 and now the 2009 WTLB. works perfect. The installation was simple and straight forward. For all those who are hesitant just do it! I have a 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo running the 10.6.2 OS X.

Patrick, You need to run the app first. If we connect via iChat, we can Screen Share and I can sort out your Mac for you. I’m happy to do that. Contact me at royratcliffe (AIM) or royratcliffe@jabber.org using iChat. When do you go to pioneer school?

Phillip, You can install both. Just put the new CD-ROM in and install again. You end up with two (or more) libraries. Synchronisation works too.

Kyosuke, Yes. You are right. Input Methods do not work with Wine, at present.

Hello,

I have installed the 08 version of WTLIB with no problems but when I went to upgrade to 09 the installer never started. Here is what I did… First, I removed all prior versions of the Library and the installer. Second, I downloaded and installed the new installer (ver 1.3) and opened the file. Third, I dragged the icon to the application folder and after finding it successfully relocated I opened the file. (Here is where the problems begin) After waiting several minutes because nothing is happening (the icon is showing the program is running but there is no welcome screen or any prompt to insert the cd) I decide to just enter the cd and see what happens. Fourth, I insert the cd and the installer begins to verify itself using a percentage bar. Once it gets to 90% it disappears and nothing happens further. Fifth, seeing that nothing is happening I look at the FAQ on your site and it suggests dragging the setup.exe file to the dock icon. So, I try that. Still nothing. The dock icon shows up to 2 processes starting but then they go to 1, then nothing again.

What am I doing wrong? This is a brand new cd gotten wrapped from the literature counter. Again, 08 still works for me and I even re-installed it on the ver 1.3 software just to see if the error was there but it worked fine and there are no problems running it. Just 09 will not load. Thanks in advance.

Brandon

Hi Roy
I’m a new mac user.
Thank you for your wonderful app to run W.lib. on mac.
unfortunately I have discovered a problem which i can’t fix.
when I crop text from W.lib. and insert it in MS office for mac.
It ignores my Danish dictionary. I have no problem with the dictionary when I type. In the part that I’ve have written I don’t have any problems with changing dictionary, but not in the pasted part.
Is it because the “window” w.lib runs in is english?

my hair is really getting gray… and thats a bit to soon.

Do you have any idea how I can sort i out.

Thank you
morten andersen, Denmark

Brandon, Sounds like a CD-ROM corruption problem. Do you have access to another copy of the CD-ROM that you can try?

Morton, Not quite sure what problem you have found. You copy and paste to Office for Mac but the pasted text is not recognised as Danish. Is that right? I’d be happy to help directly if you’re new to Mac. Please contact me at royratcliffe (AIM) or royratcliffe@jabber.org (Jabber) using iChat.

Thanks again, Roy! The new version worked perfectly on the first try. Keep up the good work- this is helpful to a lot of people =)

I don’t know it this changes anything at all in terms of cd corruption but it worked on my PC….(the cd not the emulator)

Brad, You need to make sure that the defaults domain is exactly as I wrote case-sensitively, i.e. ensure that the letters match mine by case: upper and lower. Also make sure you have back-slash then space.

Brandon, Yes, sometimes different machines have differing outcomes when reading CDs.

Thank you Roy. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to work for us. I typed it exactly like you said to and it still says “defaults don’t exist” or haven’t been changed. I guess we must have a different problem that is causing the grey screen. ? Thanks again for your help. Brad.

Hi Roy or Rachel,
I probably missed your comment but how to you upgrade the WTLIB from 08 to 09 on a MacBook Air? Thanks in advance for your help, you guys are great!

Good afternoon been using Watchtower for mac for about a month now and it worked perfectly all this time. Now when I open it shows up in the menu bar for a second and then closes it self, any idea how to fix or what could be causing this? Running 10.5.8 on imac thanks

Dear Roy,
We just recently got our first edition of the WTL and were crushed to learn it did not have a Mac install option. I found your app quite by accident (on MacFreeware site) and was so overjoyed that i was able to install and run it (so far so good, though a little slow on start up). My husband and I actually went to the expense of purchasing a laptop pc specifically to run the WTL because it didnt work on our Mac. Thank you so much for your hard work to create this program… wish we had known about it $350 dollars ago but, at least now we can have multiple users!! Thanks again. May Jehovah continue to bless you for your efforts in making the program available to those who dont own PC’s.
Agape,
Shari and Kenneth Bryant, USA

Hi Roy,

Thanks for your work on creating a great helper for us forgotten Mac users! I tried following the instructions to install TSWIN and for some reason they don’t complete. When I try to create the 1st mentioned shortcut, everything turns up as ‘0’ and that includes the shortcut.

I wondered too, that once this problem is fixed will installation of the software for CO’s install on the Mac? A close friend of mine just got invited into Circuit Work and is switching to a Mac. He wanted to use the program in the Mac eviron if possible.

Thanks,
Mark

A big thank you from mac users from Randwick congregation 2032 Sydney…..
Australia…very easy very simple.

thanks again.

Borgny, I think that upgrading will not necessarily help. Perhaps you could check your Console logs to see what error messages appear.

Bill, Not sure what you are looking for exactly. But my guess is that you are referring to the user’s home directory. You can find it from Finder by selecting Go » Home; shortcut is Shift+Command+H. Is that what you mean, or am I misunderstanding?

Mark, Not sure what you mean by “everything turns up as 0.” I’m keen to help as much as possible, of course. Perhaps you could describe the symptoms. You could file a bug at the developer site (here). You can upload screenshots and we can try to work out what has gone wrong.

Fantastic, marvellous and brilliant! Exactly what I was wishing for. Thank you so much for you effort and help on getting WTLib on a Mac. Everything worked smoothly on 10.5.8 after X11 update. Gonna get rid of every single Microsoft driven PC in the house now.

Dear Sister Hanson, Could you provide some details. What happens when you launch the Watchtower Library? Does the installed edition appear in the Applications menu?

Carl,

Can you drag other things into the application folder? Try this and see what happens.

If it has the same problem… try to “get info” about the folder. You can do this by going to “Macintosh HD” then single click on the applications folder. Go to the File menu then choose the option “Get Info”. From there you’ll see several sections. Make sure the “Sharing and Permissions” section says “Read and Write” for you. Also make sure that the box “Locked” is not checked.

Phillip

This is part of the details of the error message I am receiving:
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libXfixes.3.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/Watchtower Library.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/XServer.framework/Versions/A/XServer
Reason: image not found

Thanks Roy. However it says X11 is only for 10.5 and I’m running 10.6. Should I proceed?

Well I found X11 and installed it and, guess what? Now Mail doesn’t work!ha
Heard of that problem before?

Unfortunately there is no change. Same message, "Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libpixman-1.0.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/Watchtower Library.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/XServer.framework/Versions/A/XServer
Reason: image not found

I really don’t know enough to follow your instructions. When I hit Cmd+G I only get the error sound and nothing else.

Somehow though I got far enough through ‘Utilities’ to get the Terminal window open and this line was contained within it: /usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 26: exec: quartz-wm: not found

Does that tell you anything useful?
Thanks for your ongoing help, Roy.

Hi Roy, I haven’t used iChat before so am just trying to set it up thru Google Talk.

Great. I’m on the ministry this morning, back around 1:30pm BST (British Summer Time, though there’s not much summer here at the moment).

No problem Carl. Yes, 10pm will be fine. Looking forward to meeting you.

I’m trying you right now Roy so hopefully I have everything set up correctly as it says it’s waiting for response from you.

My apologies Roy, I didn’t see your message about being out for tea before trying to contact you.

I was doing and investigation using Boot Camp and my Windows Vista crashed. Out of pure frustration I google Wat… for Mac and I stumble into your site. Thank you very much for this app. Works great. Richard.

I have panther and I downloaded the watchtower library for mac and then the window opened for me to drag it to my applications. I dragged it there and then the watchtower library for mac has a symbol over it that looks like a white “non smoking symbol” over it. So then I took the Setup.exe and tried to drag it to the icon and it said, "Setup.exe could not be moved because watchtower library for mac v1.3 cannot be modified. I tried several times and the icon still has the symbol over it. I ever deleted everything I installed and started over and nothing worked. Please help thanks.

Awww shame…that’s too bad. Thanks for your time and response Phillip. I guess I will look for another avenue. Thanks again.

Dear Brother,

I was a user of the old program and thought that i needed to delete all files (which I did). I tried locating hidden files but I guess I am not smart enough to do that so I left that alone. The search option does not show me anything hidden. Following to that I have downloaded and installed the latest version but the framework does not want to start up. I have no clue what to do next. I hope you can find the time to help me. Thank you very much in advance.

Hi Brother Roy,

I was hoping to install Watchtower Library on my work macbook. After downloading your program i have tried to open Watchtower Library from my Applications and i get the following problem report:
Watchtower Library cannot be opened because of a problem. Check with the developer… Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libXfixes.3.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/Watchtower Library.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/XServer.framework/Versions/A/XServer
Reason: image not found

I seem to have the same error as Carl Macdonald (a few comments above) and was hoping you may be able to share how you were able to fix his problem. I’m a little worried as it’s a work computer and i don’t want to fiddle with it too much…

Thank you,
Maddy Savage

Having the exact same problem as Maddy Savage. Running 10.6.7

Oops! Looked for your answer in the wrong place and posted my question again here……. Got your reply and thank you again!

LION FIX – Please follow instructions found here

Hi Brother Roy!

Version 2 looks great! Shame about the App Store:-( But the new UI looks very polished, and it runs faster and smoother on my mac as well. I was fiddling around with the bookshelf image in the library launch screen, and changed the image to a different bookshelf, i’d be happy to email the image to you if your interested in having a look:-)
Regards,
Your Brother.

Hello, something happened to the library where I cannot open it. I want to delete it and start over. Trash won’t let me delete it because it says it is in use. I have tried everything. Can you help? I am using v2.1 and I have Mac OS X version 10.7.3

Thank you