FastTrack Schedule - 9.2.2

Just as the previous poster mentioned, you can get around the failure to launch issue by installing the application as root. For those with FastTrack 8 (8.0.8 in my case), you can do the following once your CD is in the machine:

Open Terminal

Type the following:

sudo open -a /Volumes/FastTrack\ Schedule\ 8/FastTrack\ Schedule\ 8/FastTrack\ Schedule\ 8\ Install

Of course, this means that you have to have admin access, but most primary users on Macs do, so it's your user password.

If you don't like typing that long path name, you can open a finder window, select the FastTrack CD in the upper left corner, enter the FastTrack Schedule 8 folder, and drag the FastTrack Schedule 8 Install icon to the terminal window. The path gets laid out automatically. Just be sure to put 'sudo open -a' before then. The open -a command says to run the file as if you double-clicked it in the finder window.

Hope that gets you going.

Over the years I've experienced more than my fair share of unfriendly applications. I can safely say that Fasttrack Schedule 9 takes the garbage cake, hands down. I have never had to do so much in order to accomplish so little. There is absolutely ZERO flow when it comes to using Fasttrack. Formatting is awful; there's no access to the elegant OS X Show Fonts menu; adding a Text Shadow looks the same as Fasttrack's grotesque font outline attribute; managing outline styles, column styles and other styling options is incredibly clumsy and bass-ackwards. It takes far too long to figure out how to do things that should be so evident, simple, logical, intuitive. To top it off, searching the manual for names, topics, titles and phrases specific to Fasttrack, more often than not will turn up zero results! In other words these boobs not only botched the usability, they didn't even document HOW to accomplish some of Fasttrack's idiosyncratic nonsense!

And as mentioned in a previous post, Fasttrack licensing is out of it's mind nuts! Talk about holding on waaaaay too tightly. Forget trying to test drive this in any real manner. And even if you do invest in Fasttrack (so help you god), you won't be able to use it at home on your desktop and then on the road with your laptop because of the old world license restrictions.

In a nutshell, if you love that Windows 95 look and feel, then Fasttrack (plus a handful of AEC's own moronic twists) is the package for you! Otherwise, save yourself the hassle of having to return this grade A crap and go look at Merlin or if you're patient enough to wait for it to grow up, OmniPlan. I'm sure there's some other options as well; anything's better than Fasttrack, including the oldschool pen and paper!