DT just quits after launch

Software darktable
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Hi, I had been away from DT for a while, delete every file, and wanted to try it again but the app just quits immediately after launch. I’m using Catalina 10.15.7

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Hi,

I can’t help you as I’ve no experience with a Mac however you will need to advise which version of darktable you are trying to run and from where you installed it.

This will help others help you.

Phil.

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Thanks. I downloaded the latest version (3.4.0) from GitHub.

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try starting it via terminal: /Applications/darktable.app/Contents/MacOS/darktable -d all

do you have Xcode or commandline tools installed? Then you might start it within debugger:
lldb /Applications/darktable.app/Contents/MacOS/darktable after lldb promts again press ‘r’
and then provide the output when it terminates.
type “quit” to exit the session then

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Thanks. I tried to launch via terminal ; everything ok until terminal “asked” permission to access external HD (USB drive where my images are stored), then the app quit

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try start with a clean config to be sure there’re no invalid settings:
rename ~/.config/darktable to ~/.config/darktable.old and then restart darktable 8it will recreate the config directory).
Then import some images from your external drive - it seems you have to enable access to external drives in your system security settings.
if that is fine, you can copy your data.db and library.db into the new generated ~/.config/darktable - then your former presets, styles and edits are accessible.

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Thanks a lot. It works just fine now.