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can't run app on my laptop

A topic by JFirewalker created Feb 26, 2025 Views: 74 Replies: 1
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hello - super excited to use midinous! I purchased the product and downloaded it and the app won't run on my Mac Book M1 Pro (12.7.6). can you help? thank you! Jeff

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Hi! I'm also having this problem with an M1 mac. There's a fix listed in the steam faq (making it open with rosetta) that isn't working for me, but perhaps it will work for you? I'm also unable to get it to launch even after setting it to open using rosetta though. 


Edit 1: 

After some more exploration, I tried running 

chmod +x /Applications/Midinous.app/Contents/MacOS/Midinous

which allowed it to open once. After I closed it and reopened it to check, it is no longer opening, now crashing without the error message from before. 

This has not cleared up after deleting it and redownloading it. 

I don't know what is different between this version and the demo on steam (which was working well for me before I decided to buy it here). 


Edit 2: 

I have also tried running ./Midinous and sudo ./Midinous from within the MacOS folder referenced above and the terminal says 

/Applications/Midinous.app/Contents/Resources/script: line 3: ./Midinous: Permission denied

adding the execute permission to script did not give it the permission it needed, nor did adding "sudo" to line 3 of the script file. I'm running out of ideas. 


Edit 3:

Ok I think I've gotten it. I also needed to make the Midinous file in the Resources folder executable with the following command

chmod +x /Applications/Midinous.app/Contents/Resources/Midinous


I think this and the previous chmod command above (the one that targets Midinous in the MacOS folder) are the only two things you need to do to get it to run.