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Issues running The Cape on Mac
🕑 Added 2020-09-04 04:14:36 +0000 UTCI've gotten a few reports that episodes have not been running on mac ever since an OS update from a few months ago. I don't have a lot of experience or access to macs, but patron Galkbro sent me a workaround that worked for him for episodes 13 and up. I will have to recompile and test the earlier ones to see what I can do about those. For now, here is what he sent, hopefully it works for those having problems. If you have other solutions please share them in the comments, thank you!
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This is for if you are on MacOS Catalina (and possibly Mojave) and are encountering this when clicking on an episode of NotesfromtheCape:
A couple files need to be changed in order for Newer MacOSs to recognize the command to start up the RenPy and the application. You’ll need to change this through the command line, available with Terminal (available in Applications/Utilities/Terminal). Using episode 28 as an example but you should be able to change the numbers as they update.
With Terminal, navigate to the folder with the Notes from the Cape app. If you've never used Terminal/command line before, it's a bit of a trip, but this could be helpful: learn.co/lessons/bash-navigation-osx
If it’s un-zipped in your downloads folder you can probably just navigate to:
cd ~/Downloads/Notes_p28_mac
Then, a couple files need to be changed to be recognized as executable as a program:
chmod +x NotesfromtheCape28.app/Contents/MacOS/NotesfromtheCape28
chmod +x NotesfromtheCape28.app/Contents/MacOS/lib/darwin-x86_64/NotesfromtheCape28
You’ll know it’s right if it does… nothing. If it can’t find the file it will say ‘No such file or directory’. In which case you might need to check the numbers.
If you’re running into permissions errors, you may need to put run these as an administrator with sudo like so:
sudo chmod +x NotesfromtheCape26.app/Contents/MacOS/NotesfromtheCape26
sudo chmod +x NotesfromtheCape26.app/Contents/MacOS/lib/darwin-x86_64/NotesfromtheCape26
This will prompt you for your computer password. Hopefully the method without sudo gets you where you need to go.
After these files are recognized as executables, the main application should be recognized by the OS, and you can simply override the standard “Not a recognized Apple Developer” application warnings to open the file:
Which you can override in Systems Preferences => Security and Privacy:
Hopefully this gets you back to the Cape!
