I have put this on my macbook pro and no matter what I do i get this "The application "FPVFreerider" can't be opened." i have done all the things it said to try and none of them work. what else can i look at?
How do you mean that the things it said to try didn't work?
Do you mean that you managed to do them, but it did not make a difference, or, do you mean that you were unable to do them?
Here are some general Mac tips that are also in the manual:
1. If you unzip the file on a Windows machine and transfer the file to your mac with a USB stick it should work.
2. Better solution for anybody else who has this problem. OS X is picky about which programs can be run (the first time) by double-clicking. To run a program that says "this can't be opened", right-click the icon and choose "Open". You'll be given an option to open the program, and from then on it won't bug you.
3. For Mac's having trouble installing FPV Freerider try going to the Mac's System Preferences>Security and Privacy> General Tab and check the box "Anywhere" to see if this allows your Mac to install FPV Freerider.
4. So i have banging my head with frustration about not being able to even open the program in OSX 10.10. I have finally solved the problem for anybody who is still having the same issue i was, you have to open up terminal and type chmode +x (fpvfreerider.app) and that should do it. Hope this helps anybody.
Dear Support, I just bought your „Recharged“ Simulator for my mac and every time I click „open“ it just tells me „You are not allowed to open this program. Please contact you Admin“ but I it is my mac and I already tried everything the Apple Support told me to do. Do you have any Idea what else I can do?
Yes, you need to set the permission to open the app.
Usually the chmod +x method in the install instructions works for most people.
That is:
Open up terminal and type sudo chmode +x (fpvfreerider.app) and that should do it.
It should look something like:
chmod +x /Applications/FPVFreerider_Recharged/Contents/MacOS/FPVFreerider_Recharged
(adding sudo at the start if needed).
Make sure you enter the correct folder path and app name (where the app is located on your computer).
After that you might need to go to your Mac menu System Preferences>Security & Privacy
If it says something like "Freerider was blocked from use because it is not from an identified developer" you need to select "Open Anyway".
You could try to download the zip again in case it's some rare situation that it got messed up somehow. Otherwise, it sound like a permissions thing to me. When you performed suggestion #4, did you get some kind of confirmation that the command was executed? I don't own a Mac myself though, so I hope some Mac user will be able to chime in.
so now i have reinstall OSX clean and even bought the recharged version of free rider and im still getting the same results
also your chmod script in the download section isnt written correctly.
sudo chmod +x ~/Applications/FPVFreerider_Recharged.app
When you put the tilde in there it assumes to look at the user account your currently on but when you put an app in by default it puts it in the main application folder so it should be
sudo chmod +x /Applications/FPVFreerider_Recharged.app
as Applications is a root directory
I tried editing the script as well as putting the app into the place the script wants it and i still cant get either to work.
after screwing with it for hours i finally determined that it was whatever zip format you use that was causing the issue. On my mac i use the program keka to unzip things which wouldnt let it run so i went to my windows computer that uses winrar and that also didnt work and eventually i tried the built in unzip utility in mac and that worked fine and opened right up afterwards.
Apparently this is still a problem! I have a iMac running Catalina and I purchased and downloaded the latest file for Mac. (Ive also tried the older file) I do not get a zipped file.. it seems to be a regular file (160mb) and it just gives the same dreaded error.. I do not even have the option to "unzip" because it is not compressed or "zipped". I do not have a PC at my disposal to try and covert the file and the terminal commands are not working.. this is frustrating.. Help Please... again archive utility isn't even an option for me..
The file you download here on Itch is indeed a zip file (although it may not obviously show up as one on your computer depending on how it is set up). I would recommend download a unzip software such as the one mentioned in the post above (Keka) and try using that.
(You need to get the file unzipped before you can try any of the other tips such as terminal commands etc.)