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Space Mining Clicker

Welcome Director, manage your mining facility and survive to the geopolitical storm opposing the galactic factions. · By Cold Coffee Studio

Won't open on mac?

A topic by moonlightabby created Jun 14, 2020 Views: 2,096 Replies: 15
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Whenever I try to run the application I get a pop-up saying "The application "Space mining clicker _ mac _ itch" can't be opened. I have tried deleting and reinstalling it to no avail, is there anyway around this? 

If it's saying it can't be opened because it is from an unknown developer, try this: hold down the control key and click on the app. Select "open" from the contextual menu that pops up. You should get the same box that it can't be opened, but now there is a button marked "open" if you click this it should open normally.

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I tried that, same pop up happened. 

Developer

Hello MoonLightAbby, 

Did you managed to make it work ?

I have another bug to fix tomorrow so I may rebuild the mac version as well and try to correct this issue as well.

Please keep me informed.

I am afraid I did not get it to work. 

Developer

Hello MoonLightAbby,

I did some correction and build for all platform.
Please download the new build and tell me if it works better now (it's a zip file so you need to extract before running the app).

Still the same pop up happens, I'm afraid. I went ahead and took a screenshot of said pop up, no idea if that's of any help. When I hit the question mark nothing happens so I'm unsure as to why it can't be opened. 

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I also want to add that if this is something that there's no easy fix to; it's totally okay and I understand. 

Developer (1 edit)

Thank you for the screenshot!
Can you tell me which version of OSX you are using, I will dig into the problem

macOS Catalina 10.15.5

Developer

I didn't found anything yet on the web to fix the issue...

I uploaded a new build but nothing different regarding Mac itself...

I will continue searching, sorry about that :/

No worries! I got this game through the bundle for racial justice & equality, so if I simply can't access this game, while disappointing, I personally will be fine. I wanted to let you know so you could be aware of the issue, and if it was fixable that was a bonus. Thank you very much for your time and effort that you've put into this game and into trying to help me. If it ever does get resolved (or perhaps I get a non mac computer somewhere down the line) I will give the game a play. 

Developer

I will receive a mac book pro tomorrow lend by a dev friend to test that. I will remove the mac build from the game description if I have the same problem on this computer. The weird thing is all my mac builds (for my other games) available on Steam are working perfectly (I have some people on Discord using Mac and giving me feedback during alphas or betas)...

It works on my old iMac (just a data point)

Developer(+1)

thank you for the heads up Chuk !

Do you enjoy the game?

Hey, the fix for this is to follow the top answer here:   https://superuser.com/questions/1127274/the-application-exampleapp-can-t-be-opened-how-to-modify-the-executable-statu

Then you'll need to go to Security and Privacy and allow the app to open anyway (ignoring the  malware potential warnings).  This fix works for a lot of the games in this bundle. Not sure what causes this but it has to due with the Catalina update as far as I can tell.