0.51 Won't start on Mac 10.8.1

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JBE
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0.51 Won't start on Mac 10.8.1

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Mac OS: 10.8.1
  • Downloaded XnViewMP 0.51 (.tgz file)
  • Double clicked to unzip.
  • Dragged and drop the xnview app to the applications folder
  • Double clicked on xnview app in applications folder
    • no bouncing icon in dock
    • nothing else happens!
    • Error message in console app:

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      09.09.12 15:29:59,415 com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[244]:
      ([0x0-0x31031].com.xnview.XnView[413]) Job failed to exec(3) for weird reason: 13
      
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Re: 0.51 Won't start on Mac 10.8.1

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Do you allow external application to start?
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Re: 0.51 Won't start on Mac 10.8.1

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Yes!

As a precaution i have set "Allow application downloaded from:" to "Anywhere"
( https://support.apple.com/kb/HT5290 )
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Re: 0.51 Won't start on Mac 10.8.1

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I have no problem on clean install of 10.8

Could you try to start XnViewMP from a console?
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Re: 0.51 Won't start on Mac 10.8.1

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open /Applications/XnViewMP.app
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Applications/XnViewMP.app.
This will work:

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open /Applications/Preview.app
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Re: 0.51 Won't start on Mac 10.8.1

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I have changed the file permissions and now it works!

Thank you for your help!

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chmod a+x /Applications/XnViewMP.app/Contents/MacOS/XnViewMP
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