- Jul 23, 2018
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Thank you SO much for this. I did the xattr thing and it did come back saying quarantine. Whats the best way around that? Before I started futzing with all this it used to ask me if I wanted to give permission to open the app and then it would work. It still does that for other games, but for some reason I've messed up something with ToA specifically that's not letting me open it anymore.Can't really tell now what's going on your Mac, but some general tips might be useful.
There's a difference between ~/Library/Application Support and Library/Application support. The first one in in the root of your home directory, the second one in the root of Macintosh HD. Be sure not to mix them up.
Stay away from sudo unless it is really needed. Just chmod -R 775 would be enough in this case.
Folders shouldn't disappear when you put them back. Maybe you dropped it inside another folder by accident. If you want to search for it, you can do so with an application like Easyfind (made by Devontechnologies, their Mac apps are under Needful Things). Spotlight is useless for serious searching.
That said, for clean installs it's best to remove the folder from your library. The game will make a new one if needed.
If you want more details of what's going on, delve inside the ToA app (right click, show package contents) and go to /Contents/MacOs. There is the actual executable. Doubleclicking that should open Terminal which in its turn should start the game. If it does not, you will get at least some feedback of what's happening under the hood.
It also is a good idea to see if the app is not quarantined by Gatekeeper in spite of you telling MacOs you want to open it. In Terminal, type "xattr " (without quotes) and drag the app inside the window and hit return. If you see com.apple.quarantine in the results, the app is quarantined.
I did ultimately find the folder in a mis-dropped folder as you mentioned. I've since moved it to an external to try starting fresh with a new download but that didn't work at all.
I also did the executable into terminal thing which gave me a whole mess of stuff I don't fully understand. But like you said ultimately didn't open the app.
Happy to move this to PM's if thats a thing, but didn't see any way to initiate that myself.
Thanks again!