I don't think yours is a stupid question at all. The answer is no. Changing the name of the app did not change the path in the Prefs at all. To expand on that, originally I had FreeCAD .19. On the Mac the file shows as "FreeCAD.app". Recently I downloaded .20. I renamed each copy of the app to reflect which version it was "FreeCAD .19.app" and "FreeCAD .20.app" respectively. When opening either of the renamed apps and checking the path to the LineGroup.csv file, the Prefs panel was populated with the same and correct path to the csv file. Not only was the Prefs file populated with the path, but a manual inspection of the path proved it to be correct and that the csv file existed. I also opened the csv file with a text editor without incident which might have been some indication it was not corrupted. As I wrote previously, the error message disappeared when renaming the apps back to FreeCAD.app.adrianinsaval wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 3:54 pm I don't use mac so I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but doesn't this path (/Applications/FreeCAD.app/Contents/Resources/share/Mod/TechDraw/LineGroup/LineGroup.csv) stop existing if you change the name of the app?
If so then as soon as you change the name of the app the preference setting is not correct anymore so you would have to adjust to the new name you gave it.
I believe I may recall other instances of changing an application's name that resulted in problems using the app, but that this is not always the case. Also, on the Mac, if a person single clicks on an app's icon then invokes the Get Info command with the key combination Command-I the Get Info window will open (screenshot attached). You will notice in the Get Info window that versioning information for FreeCAD is absent. Now I'm not sure what that means as to how the operating system deals with it, but generally the Get Info window does include version numbers. FWIW, neither version of FreeCAD I have includes versioning info in the Get Info window. When I change an app's name that change is reflected in the Name & Extension field of the Get Info window. It seems the Mac regards an app's name as separate from its version, and perhaps it also regards the name the users sees or changes it to as yet something different from how the OS identifies the app. This is above my pay grade, however.