Hi!
I’m kind of new and I’m trying to figure out a lot. I have been doing small tests with scrapebox for Mac, but I am disappointed that I cannot get the article scraper add on with the Mac version. I also am sad that I can’t have multiple tasks running in the software on Mac. I am wondering if the solution can be to install boot camp? I got so displeased with windows over the years and I only use Mac. I thought about getting a pc, but the last time I bought a windows laptop there was all of this garbage annoying windows MOOP on there rendering it virtually worthless...I didn’t mind windows 7 but... I even tried to load it with Linux, but it’s been a pain. the windows laptop currently makes a nice iPad or phone stand for zoom conferences... I just want to use scrapebox with all the windows features not on windows please if you have any insight
Well there is a lot of great info in this thread, but you said 1 thing:
"I just want to use scrapebox with all the windows features not on windows please"
Unfortunately the answer is
You can not.
Mac is a great OS and works great for a lot of people. Windows is a great OS that also works great for a lot of people. The thing is, they are different. In fact if you look at the mac back end, its like they did everything the opposite as windows on purpose. From the back end code to putting the windows controls like minimize, X etc.. on the opposite side of the window and everything in between, its all just about done opposite on purpose.
Id guess due to copyright and all that jazz.
The thing is, and Im making some real big generic statements here as its just too deep to go into, that it is opposite and so it works different.
Windows architecture is simply better suited for the multi threaded nature of an automation program like scrapebox. From everything from the error handling to how windows allows you to run multiple instances and mac does not its just better suited. When I say "better" I mean windows is able to more effectively utilize the tools in scrapebox. Again super generic statements for simplicity sake.
So like Bass Tracker said, you have to kind of pick, and parallels is a great option.
As to the plugins, they are planned, but Ive no clue when that will be. Mac is quite frankly more a pain in the rear to code for as well. You can take 100 windows machines and scrapebox will do the same thing 100 times. You can take 100 macs and 92 will work 1 way, 3 will work another way, 1 another and 4 another way. With no reason for doing so, the same code can behave differently on 1 mac then another, which does not happen on windows. So it makes it hard to troubleshoot. Further back to architecture mac is poor with things like massive amounts of errors stacking up fast. When you get into a bucket load of threads and moving parts you can get into a bucket load of errors in an instant. Windows handles those well and mac can (although not always) choke with that. However in fairness no one and apple or microsoft sat around and planned for programs like scrapebox, it just so happens to work out the way that it is.
So stuff like that, Im sure they have run into issues with article scraper stuff and thus its not yet out.
Anyway not sure if thats really much help, but thought I would toss it out there.
In general though scrapebox does work on mac, but just as you noted it is different then windows and as the saying goes, you can't have your cake and eat it too. Well you can't have the functionality of scrapebox on windows and run it on mac.
Wish I had a better answer, but it is what it is.
