Golden Cheetah and OS X Mavericks

Triathlon Forum
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Just installed OS X Mavericks and it appears that Golden Cheetah won’t recognize my LYC on the USB cradle. Anyone had/solved the same issue?

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Did it require a driver before? If so, just reload that driver.

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Yeah, tried that, no luck.

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FWIW, I time machined back to mountain lion and everything is better. I’ll give them a couple months to sort things out and then I may try upgrading again.

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I realize this is an older post, but I was having some issues with Mavericks and Golden Cheetah, and finally have things sorted out.
(BTW, I am using an old LYC with the accompanying USB cradle, but this should work for newer LYC’s/cradles as well)
Disclaimer: I am no programmer, just did a lot of research, and this solved my driver issue.

  1. Download Golden Cheetah’s version 3.0.1 (for Mac, obviously): http://goldencheetah.org/download.html

  2. Follow STer nembot’s info located here: http://forum.slowtwitch.com/...um.cgi?post=4426077;

  3. Download the FTDI Driver Manual, and go to page 14: http://www.ftdichip.com/...uide_for_MAC_OSX.pdf

  4. Open Terminal: (Mac Hard Drive/Applications/Utilities/Terminal)

  5. Follow directions from FTDI PDF (more helpful info on this located here): https://groups.google.com/...ah-users/8-oxFxiCP0M

  6. Depending on your set up, you may need to create an admin password to edit the sudo code in Terminal (info located here, it is for 10.6X, but the only difference is instead of “accounts”, it is under “users and groups” in Mavericks, click on “change password”): http://support.apple.com/kb/PH6595

  7. Copy and paste in the 3 lines of sudo code (below) into Terminal.

            cd /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins
        sudo mv AppleUSBFTDI.kext AppleUSBFTDI.disabled
        sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions
  • You will be prompted for a password: enter the admin password (password you have and/or created in step 6), password will NOT be visible in Terminal when you are typing, but it is there, just hit enter. If you mess up typing the password, it will say: “Sorry, try again.”
  1. Close Terminal and restart your computer for the changes to take affect.
  2. Open Golden Cheetah, and choose PowerTap from the device menu, and D2XX from the port menu, click Download

Hopefully this comes in handy for someone down the line.

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Thanks for taking the trouble to document and share that.

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No problem. Hopefully it will save others some frustration.

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yes, thanks very much
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Just a quick bump to remind people of this since Apple released another update today. Follow the instructions given above and all will be good.