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Jav-It

The most comprehensive JAV video cataloging tool. · By jav-it

Trouble running from the start

A topic by heyeddie created Jun 01, 2021 Views: 330 Replies: 3
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Hello, Thanks for coding this awesome program. Unfortunately I'm not able to run it. (I have a Mac, running Big Sur.)

I'm having trouble with Jav-It recognizing the path to or accessing my JAV folder.  This is what it looks like when I follow the instructions (I think) on the README text and  try to run it (my JAV folder is simply labled 'maintenance'):

jav-it_v1.5.1_mac (1) %  ./jav-it catalog -d/Library/Documentation/User Information/Vuze/system library/maintenance

Jav-It v1.5.1 Copyright (c) 2020 (https://jav-it.itch.io/jav-it)

*** This is REGISTERED software. With your support, you are encouraging the

*** author to continue to develop this tool and new functionality! THANK YOU!

2021/06/01 13:59:46 [FAIL] The directory specified does not exist or could not be accessed!


Sorry for the noob question, but any help is appreciated!

 

Developer

Hi,

Thanks for the kind reply. Maybe this is a dumb question, but I noted you wrote:

"jav-it_v1.5.1_mac (1) %  ./jav-it catalog -d/Library/Documentation/User Information/Vuze/system library/maintenance"

And I don't see a space between "-d" and "/Library/Documentation/User Information/Vuze/system library/maintenance". Is that a typo? In addition, can you confirm that "/Library/Documentation/User Information/Vuze/system library/maintenance" does infact exist?

Thanks for your help on this. The space may have been a typo but I tried it without the space and got the same result.  I can confirm that the path is correct. However, since I have very little experience  using Terminal, I want to make sure I have all the steps right.  In the README, where it says: 

2. Launch a command prompt, navigate to the folder where Jav-It exists and

   enter the following command:

Linux & MacOS:

   ./jav-it catalog -d <your_video_path>

Does 'launch a command prompt' simply mean to open Terminal? And if so, once I've done that what does it mean when it says to 'navigate to the folder where Jav-It exists'?  


Developer(+1)

Hi,

Yes, indeed your correct! A command line prompt is the same as your terminal application. Just a different way of expressing the same thing. "Navigate to the folder where Jav-It exists" simply means to make your current directory the folder where you installed Jav-It. Conisdering your getting program output, I assume you've done this already!

In regards to your folder path, I noted that it contains spaces. Did you remember to include quotes around it? For example: 

./jav-it catalog -d "/Library/Documentation/User Information/Vuze/system library/maintenance"

You will notice that the entire path is surrounded in quotes. This is done to protect the spaces you have, since otherwise MacOS has no idea how to understand what part is your path and which part is a new command option. 

Let me know if this helps!