To be fair removing /Applications/darktable.app is basically the same thing as would package manager in Linux world do. OS X design itself is relatively clean, the issue here is Apple randomly breaking stuff without any warning. They did it with color managing, VPN, NFS and so on...
On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 14:34:10 -0600 "Brandt, Riley" <r...@libertymail.net> wrote: > > > Yes, I am currently running OS X version 10.8.5. Older versions of > darktable worked fine, but I've had this problem for a couple of > releases now. > > If Apple had a way to properly delete programs (like a package manager) > this probably wouldn't be an issue. I even tried a program called > CleanMyMac to completely uninstall darktable, but still no luck. > > On 2015-08-21 14:25, parafin wrote: > > > Is this OS X 10.8.5? I recently tested 10.8.3 and everything worked > > fine. Sadly since I don't have access to 10.8.5 (and I can't upgrade > > Mac I used) it's impossible for me to find the problem. Or maybe it's > > not every 10.8 system that has this problem. In any case I blame Apple:) > > > > On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 13:53:07 -0600 > > "Brandt, Riley" <r...@libertymail.net> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the suggestion. I deleted all those files. This time a > > dialogue box appeared saying "verifying darktable.app" which wasn't > > appearing before. > > > > Unfortunately, no luck. The icon just bounces up and down in the dock. > > The Activity Monitor shows darktable as running, but nothing appears on > > the screen. I have to force quit darktable. It might be related to > > something else other than cache files. > > > > Anyway, at least I can launch darktable from the terminal. > > > > On 2015-08-21 11:59, parafin wrote: > > > > ~/.config/darktable and ~/.cache/darktable (and also some not directly > > related to DT like ~/.cache/osmgpsmap) > > > > On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 11:33:34 -0600 > > "Brandt, Riley" <r...@libertymail.net> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to do a fresh install of darktable on Mac OS X, because my > > current install won't launch normally (I can launch it from terminal > > with "/Applications/darktable.app/Contents/MacOS/darktable"). > > > > When I delete the darktable.app from the Applications folder, there must > > be some other files left behind, because all my preferences are saved > > after I reinstall darktable. Are there some files in ~/Library/Caches I > > need to delete? Is there a "lock" file somewhere that needs to be > > deleted? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Riley > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > Darktable-users mailing list > > Darktable-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users [1] [1 [1]] > > Links: > ------ > [1] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users [1] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Darktable-users mailing list > Darktable-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users [1] > > Links: > ------ > [1] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list Darktable-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
