[Axo1ot1]

I have a vise installer that I need to run, but it's showing up to my system as a text document and not an application. On the assumption it might've been a carbon issue, I tried using 'LaunchCFMApp' to run it via the terminal and was either unsuccessful because I have no idea what I'm doing in the terminal, or because my shot-in-the-dark solution missed the mark.

Get info reveals no hidden .app extension or anything like that, and when I tried to add one the system told me it couldn't run a Classic application. I am 99% positive this installer is not a classic application.

Anyone know what I can do to make this work?

[Big Mac]

Vise, ugh. An awful throwback to the Classic era. It sounds like the installer wasn't encoded properly when it was copied or transmitted and won't work because it's damaged. Where did you get the installer from?

[timmerk]

If you downloaded this installer as a .sit file, and used something other than Stuffit Expander to decompress it, it probably removed the resource fork. Without the resource fork, it's no good.

What app is this installer for? It may also be that the installer is a classic app, and you don't have classic if you have an Intel Mac.

[Axo1ot1]

It's definitely supposed to be an OSX file as it's installing a plugin for After Effects CS3 and it's new this year.