Google Earth and Mac OS 10.5 Leopard

I tried running Google Earth today for the first time since I upgraded to Leopard. It quit unexpectedly without an error message. I tried re-installing from the original .dmg image but did not resolve the issue. Apparently I’m not the only one with this problem.

According to Google, version 4.2 of Google Earth is compatible with Leopard. Downloading and installing this version resolved my problem, but there are others for which this solution did not work. According to one poster on the Google forums, the following may help:

Delete the entire ~/Library/Application Support/Google Earth/ folder
Delete the ~/Library/Preferences/com.Google.GoogleEarthPlus.plist file
Restart Google Earth

If you delete these files, be aware that you’ll need to reload your myplaces.kml file from a backup. (The myplaces.kml file is saved in the “Google Earth” folder listed above).

Tags: google_earth, leopard

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3 Responses to “Google Earth and Mac OS 10.5 Leopard”

brett jolly says:

Monday, 31st December, 2007 at 11:57

You absolute diamond, I’ve been screwing around with this for days…. this sorted it out in 3 minutes, thank god for people like you!!!
paulmc says:

Monday, 31st December, 2007 at 16:15

Thanks for the compliment! It’s nice to hear that this helped you out.

Happy New Year,
Paul.
John Lynch says:

Monday, 2nd June, 2008 at 20:41

I recently upgraded iMac from OS 10,4 to OS 10.5. When I run Google earth after a few minutes it shuts down my computer and then it restarts by itself. Prior to the upgrade it worked fine. Any suggestions?