[spitfire]

Would having an old version installed make a difference? I renamed my current install to "mathematica backup.app" then installed mms 10. It feels like some part of mms has failed without adequately reporting it.

Mac OSX 10.9.4

uname -a <~/Library/Mathematica/Licensing nyx[33] Darwin nyx.local 13.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 13.3.0: Tue Jun 3 21:27:35 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2422.110.17~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64

Session log below.

Mathematica 10.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) Copyright 1988-2014 Wolfram Research, Inc.

In[1]:= $Version

Out[1]= 10.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (June 29, 2014)

In[2]:= $VersionNumber

Out[2]= 10.

In[3]:= SystemInformation["Small"]

Out[3]= {Kernel ->

> {SystemID -> MacOSX-x86-64, ReleaseID -> 10.0.0.0 (5098698, 5098537),

> CreationDate -> DateObject[{2014, 6, 29}, TimeObject[{20, 38, 32}]]},

> FrontEnd ->

> {OperatingSystem -> $Failed, ReleaseID -> Missing[NotActive],

> CreationDate -> DateObject[$Failed]}}

In[4]:= URLFetch["http://www.google.com/"]

General::unavail: ExportString is not available in this version of the Wolfram Language.

ImportString::string: First argument ExportString[{60, 33, 100, 111, 99, 116, 121, 112, 101, 32, 104, 116, 109, 108, 62, 60, 104, 116, 109, 108, 32, 105, 116, <<19641>>, 111, 100, 121, 62, 60, 47, 104, 116, 109, 108, 62}, <<2>>] is not a string.

Out[4]= ImportString[ExportString[{60, 33, 100, 111, 99, 116, 121, 112, 101,

> 32, 104, 116, 109, 108, 62, 60, 104, 116, 109, 108, 32, 105, 116, 101,

-- Snip --

In[5]:= ExportString[]

ExportString::argrx: ExportString called with 0 arguments; 2 arguments are expected.

Out[5]= ExportString[]

[taliesinb]

Looks like it... I would delete both from disk, redownload 10, and reinstall it. Also check that you didn't run out of disk space.

If all else fails, phone our technical support at 1-800-WOLFRAM, they're pretty good.

[spitfire]

I checked the MD5sum given on the wolfram website (b58c6bb7393f23137355da923f2734fc), they match.

Completely removing my previous copy of Mathematica and nuking my ~/Library/Mathematica directory made the documentation formatting errors go away. I'm not sure if that was the cause or not.

However, I still get ExportString messages out of many functions.

General::unavail: ExportString is not available in this version of the Wolfram Language.

EDIT: I'm trying to hunt down why I get the unveil error message. Might this be a limitation of a trial mathematica license?

[taliesinb]

Turns out the trial version is (probably accidentally) quite broken: http://community.wolfram.com/groups/-/m/t/290210?p_p_auth=uf...