<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">My colleague indeed fixed his problem with TeXShop by removing the very old version of the app, removing the very old ~/Library/TeXshop folder, and reinstalling TeXShop.<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 18, 2017, at 2:53 PM, Richard M. Koch <<a href="mailto:koch@uoregon.edu" class="">koch@uoregon.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">a) Try downloading a copy from my web site:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/texshop/texshop.html" class="">http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/texshop/texshop.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">b) When TeXShop first runs, it creates a folder named TeXShop in ~/Library, the user's home library folder, ofren hidden.</div><div class="">Sometimes this folder has incorrect permissions that don't let this folder be created. Correct the permissions</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">c) Ignoring your statement that this Mac is new, if this user moved material from an older machine, they might have</div><div class="">moved an older version of TeXShop. In that case, search for and remove all older versions.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Incidentally, within the last year I bought.a new machine and did NOT run into this problem. So look for anything</div><div class="">unusual, like the software insralled before MacTeX.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dick Koch</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 18, 2017, at 11:28 AM, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">I’m asking this for a colleague who just downloaded MacTeX-2017 to a brand new Mac that is running macOS Sierra (10.12.5).<br class=""><br class="">He writes:<br class=""><br class=""> "I successfully downloaded the MacTeX.pkg, the md5 command verified that the MacTeX.pkg was undamaged. Unfortunately, when I tried to launch the program I rec’d the error message: 'TeXShop cannot be opened because of a problem. Check with the developer to make sure TeXShop works with this version of macOS’.”<br class=""><br class="">Any idea what could be wrong?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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