unable to start after moving the ffs_gui

Posts: 12 · ptoche 7 Oct 2014, 23:37

The app crashed repeatedly on start-up after I had moved the location of the ffs_gui. On Mac OS X Mavericks, go to: Library -> Application Support -> FreeFileSync and open the GlobalSettings.xml with a text editor to delete the offending paths manually. Problem solved.

Posts: 12 · ptoche 8 Oct 2014, 09:23

and 6.10 app not working at all for me ("invalid something specification" error message), but 6.9 still works.

Posts: 7211 · Zenju 8 Oct 2014, 11:04

Can you post screenshots of the error messages you are seeing?

Posts: 12 · ptoche 14 Oct 2014, 16:45

Can you post screenshots of the error messages you are seeing?Zenju

Sorry Zenju, I downgraded to 6.09. Today I downloaded 6.10 again and clicked to launch it: nothing happens, no error message, the program is not launched, nothing...

Posts: 7211 · Zenju 15 Oct 2014, 11:01

You can try to start it from command line: execute

FreeFileSync.app/Contents/MacOS/FreeFileSync

manually, then you should at least see *something*.

Posts: 7211 · Zenju 15 Oct 2014, 11:03

The app crashed repeatedly on start-up after I had moved the location of the ffs_gui. On Mac OS X Mavericks, go to: Library -> Application Support -> FreeFileSync and open the GlobalSettings.xml with a text editor to delete the offending paths manually. Problem solved.ptoche

Do you have by chance your old GlobalSettings.xml that would allow me to reproduce the problem?

Posts: 12 · ptoche 15 Oct 2014, 11:52

Would you explain that more slowly please? Thanks!

ITs-MacBook-Air-2:Downloads PatrickT$ cd FreeFileSync_6.10_Mac_OS_X_64-bit
ITs-MacBook-Air-2:FreeFileSync_6.10_Mac_OS_X_64-bit PatrickT$ sudo FreeFileSync.app/Contents/MacOS/FreeFileSync
Password:
sudo: FreeFileSync.app/Contents/MacOS/FreeFileSync: command not found

Posts: 7211 · Zenju 15 Oct 2014, 13:04

Would you explain that more slowly please? Thanks!

ITs-MacBook-Air-2:Downloads PatrickT$ cd FreeFileSync_6.10_Mac_OS_X_64-bit
ITs-MacBook-Air-2:FreeFileSync_6.10_Mac_OS_X_64-bit PatrickT$ sudo FreeFileSync.app/Contents/MacOS/FreeFileSync
Password:
sudo: FreeFileSync.app/Contents/MacOS/FreeFileSync: command not foundptoche

So the "FreeFileSync.app/Contents/MacOS/FreeFileSync" file is missing? This explains already why double-clicking the app does not work. Where did you download the .zip archive from?

Posts: 12 · ptoche 16 Oct 2014, 19:20

So the "FreeFileSync.app/Contents/MacOS/FreeFileSync" file is missing? This explains already why double-clicking the app does not work. Where did you download the .zip archive from?Zenju

Here, as usual:

https://freefilesync.org/

Posts: 12 · ptoche 16 Oct 2014, 19:36

If I right-click on FreeFileSync.app and select "Show Package Contents", the FreeFileSync file is there inside MacOS.

Posts: 7211 · Zenju 17 Oct 2014, 13:59

Just tested on OS X 10.9.5:

sudo FreeFileSync.app/Contents/MacOS/FreeFileSync

correctly starts FreeFileSync. OTOH the "FreeFileSync" binary is in fact existing in the released package. So it seems that - for whatever reason - it was missing in your test above.

Posts: 12 · ptoche 19 Oct 2014, 14:30

Just tested on OS X 10.9.5:

sudo FreeFileSync.app/Contents/MacOS/FreeFileSync

correctly starts FreeFileSync. OTOH the "FreeFileSync" binary is in fact existing in the released package. So it seems that - for whatever reason - it was missing in your test above.Zenju

Probably some weird thing on my system. I'll wait for the next release to see how goes... Thanks Zenju!