FreeCAD no longer starts properly on Macos

[nyholku]

Hi,

I've been experimenting with FreeCAD for a few days.

I was trying the Drawing WB when suddenly I could do next to nothing. I could zoom with the wheel but I could not select anything the cursor is only the hand-icon.

I quit FreeCAD saving document as I exited.

Now when I try to launch FreeCAD it launches but all I get is a gray window with title 'FreeCAD' and a menubar with "Apple FreeCAD View Help" menus. The View menu contains one item, Workbenches, and if I select any of WBs the gray window disappears and so do the View and Help menus, I guess the program crashes somehow.

So what do I need to delete or do to get back to square one.

I can access the preferences dialog.

I'm on Macos 10.10.5 (Yosemite) with precompiled FreeCAD 0.16

br Kusti

[chrisb]

I doubt that the program itself got corrupted if you don't have similar things with other programs or data. I would start deleting the user config files. There is a folder Library/Preferences/FreeCAD and a file Library/Preferences/FreeCAD.plist under your home directory which should be removed. All your personal settings will be lost.
If this doesn't help reinstall FreeCAD.
Where did you get your program from? Can you get the About FreeCAD dialog? If so, click the "Copy to clipboard" button and post the result here.

[nyholku]

Ok, thanks I will try that.

I got the program a few days ago (this time, this is not the first time I've played with it) from:

http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/?title=Download

Here is the info from the About... dialog:


OS: Mac OS X
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.16.6706 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: tag: 0.16.6706
Hash: f86a4e411ff7848dea98d7242f43b7774bee8fa0
Python version: 2.7.11
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 3.1.3
OCC version: 6.8.0.oce-0.17

And thanks!

[chrisb]

And thanks!

Glad to help.
Your FreeCAD info shows that you are using almost the right version. When using the Mac I use the same without problems (well there are some minor issues...)

[nyholku]

Could not find 'Library/Preferences/FreeCAD.plist' but there was 'system.cfg' and 'usr.cfg' and I deleted them (actually renamed them diff them with the correct ones) and now FreeCAD starts. Great, thanks.

wbr Kusti

[chrisb]

You're welcome.

[nyholku]

For the record I found (missed it somehow on the first try):

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~/Library/Preferences/FreeCAD.plist

but this contains nothing very exiting and I did not have to touch this to make FreeCAD work again.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<true/>
</plist>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<true/>
</plist>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<string>~/FreeCAD-harkoituksia</string>
</plist>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<string>{712, 448}</string>
</plist>

[chrisb]

Thanks for the information. I have to confess that I did not delete my config files for a test. I thought it would suffice if you have to delete yours .

[Bance]

thx ChrisB, I was having the same problem.... same fix but on linux mint