Darktable on MacOS 15 installs but does not start

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Dear Community,

I am fairly new to darktable. New in a sense that I downloaded the software yesterday for the first time. I have a MacBook with M2 chip and with macOS 15.1. I downloaded the package darktable-4.8.1-arm64.dmg from their website (and also GitHub site directly). I doubled clicked the downloaded file and dragged the darktable icon over the ‘Applications’ icon and hence installed the software. Then I used the this command
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/darktable.app
as mentioned in the installation notes on the darktable website.

Now when I try to open the application, the small darktable icon on the bottom of my screen bounces and nothing happens. No errors but also the software does not open. I will admit that I am fairly new to Mac as well. Hence I do not know if there is something I am missing or something else I can try.

I appreciate any input. Thank you very much :slight_smile:

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maybe open a terminal an run darktable with debug output:
/Applications/darktable.app/Contents/MacOS/darktable -d common

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thank you Martin for the prompt reply. I ran using the command and get the following error:
path lookup '/Users/abd/.config/darktable' fails with: 'No such file or directory'

I checked the .config folder and it indeed doesn’t have the mentioned directory. Is it supposed to be created manually?

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This command really helped me. I could google this error and find the solution here
https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/issues/16926
Thanks a lot!!!

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I usually it’s created on first startup - maybe you need to give darktable disk access permissions in system security settings first.
macOS 15 seems to be more restrictive than earlier versions :wink:

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