I'm trying to setup Minecraft for my daughters on their own OS X accounts of our new computer. At this point I'm using normal un-restricted accounts while I troubleshoot. Whatever account I "install" minecraft on it will work. But if I switch users and launch it then I get the error "Minecraft updater - Unable to start Minecraft, if you are running from a dmg, please drag to Applications and try again."
I am not running the DMG. I've installed it via drag and drop to the apps folder and then deleted the dmg etc. So it works on the users account that I install it but that error pops up on any other accounts that I try to open minecraft with later.
If I re-install on a different account by overwriting the files etc then it does the same thing but for that account.
On the original first account I installed some form of java developer app that was required to open forge installer. The last two versions of forge. The furniture mod. And Decco craft 2. Otherwise it's a brand new system.
Thanks for any help or ideas. I can confirm that I've tried logging out of the minecraft account before opening under a different profile but that doesn't help.
I'm having this exact same issue with the 3 kids account I just created on my new Mac mini. Really interested if anyone knows how to solve this as I'm pretty much a Mac newbie (I have to say, using Mac OS X is not really as simple as I hoped it would be).
I'm not a mac newbie at all so I'm pretty confident I'm doing everything right. I'm leaning towards this being a bug. It's the only program having issues but hoping maybe there is a workaround. It's so frustrating and I have no idea of an official Minecraft support channel to submit the issue to receive any kind of response aside from this user forum
I'm not a mac newbie at all so I'm pretty confident I'm doing everything right. I'm leaning towards this being a bug. It's the only program having issues but hoping maybe there is a workaround. It's so frustrating and I have no idea of an official Minecraft support channel to submit the issue to receive any kind of response aside from this user forum
Mojang support is mainly for account issues, for tech issues they ill just refer you back here or to the IRC channel #minecrafthelp , there is also a 3/4 week backlog at Mojang on email support for accounts so thats a long wait to be told to come here
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With Minecraft installed, hold down Command & Shift, then press G. Type ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft and press enter. Find launcher.jar and open it. You will have to do this every time, for this is a bug that cannot be fixed without Mojang.
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I'm trying to setup Minecraft for my daughters on their own OS X accounts of our new computer. At this point I'm using normal un-restricted accounts while I troubleshoot. Whatever account I "install" minecraft on it will work. But if I switch users and launch it then I get the error "Minecraft updater - Unable to start Minecraft, if you are running from a dmg, please drag to Applications and try again."
I am not running the DMG. I've installed it via drag and drop to the apps folder and then deleted the dmg etc. So it works on the users account that I install it but that error pops up on any other accounts that I try to open minecraft with later.
If I re-install on a different account by overwriting the files etc then it does the same thing but for that account.
On the original first account I installed some form of java developer app that was required to open forge installer. The last two versions of forge. The furniture mod. And Decco craft 2. Otherwise it's a brand new system.
Thanks for any help or ideas. I can confirm that I've tried logging out of the minecraft account before opening under a different profile but that doesn't help.
I'm having this exact same issue with the 3 kids account I just created on my new Mac mini. Really interested if anyone knows how to solve this as I'm pretty much a Mac newbie (I have to say, using Mac OS X is not really as simple as I hoped it would be).
I'm not a mac newbie at all so I'm pretty confident I'm doing everything right. I'm leaning towards this being a bug. It's the only program having issues but hoping maybe there is a workaround. It's so frustrating and I have no idea of an official Minecraft support channel to submit the issue to receive any kind of response aside from this user forum
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ModeratorMojang support is mainly for account issues, for tech issues they ill just refer you back here or to the IRC channel #minecrafthelp , there is also a 3/4 week backlog at Mojang on email support for accounts so thats a long wait to be told to come here
With Minecraft installed, hold down Command & Shift, then press G. Type ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft and press enter. Find launcher.jar and open it. You will have to do this every time, for this is a bug that cannot be fixed without Mojang.
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