I have problems with spat 5 externals and Mac Os Catalina. Even though I have eliminated quarantine with Terminal app, Max Msp doesn’t load the externals so Spat doesn’t work.
To eliminate quarantine:
xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine
and then
file path
I dragged the spat 5 folder
But it didn’t work.
Then I checked atributes for spat 5: turned out that no quarantine was among them (neither AMONG spat5 folder nor externals folder)
SO IF THE PROBLEM IS NOT THE QUARANTINE, WHAT???
Hi Marcy,
Please describe precisely your issues.
What error messages you got ? What is your version of Max, of Spat ?
Describe each step of your process. Send screenshots or screenrecording if needed.
We cannot help you without further, detailed, information.
Ok, thank you
I have Mac 10.15.7
Max Msp 7.3.6
Spat 5.1.9
I wrote in the Terminal:
xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine /Users/marcelapavia/Documenti\ /Max\ 7/Packages/spat5
taking care of leaving a space between quarantine and Users.
I didn’t write the file path: just dragged the folder spat5 into the the Terminal.
As you see spat 5 folder is inside Packages.
Then I pressed Enter and Terminal showed this:
marcelapavia@MBP-di-marcela ~ %
So no error occurred.
Then I opened Max and opened a spat 5 patch (help folder), Max console showed this:
spat5.adm.play~: unable to load object bundle executable
2020-11-08 14:00:58.297 Max[774:16510] Cannot find executable for CFBundle 0x7fa499bce030 </Users/marcelapavia/Documents/Max 7/Packages/spat5/externals/spat5.adm.play~.mxo> (not loaded)
In the patch the object spat5.adm.play was not active (brown color)
Than you very much, I hope you can find a solution!
Marcy
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Could you double-check that Max in running in 64 bit mode ? by clicking “About Max”
(as you’re on mac 10.15, that should be the case, but we never know) -
I recommend you delete your spat5 folder. Download it again. And try using it without doing any Terminal operation (dont bother about quarantine).
Hi,
1- I checked Max and It is running in 64 bit mode
2-I deleted spat folder and downloaded again from Ircam page. The version I downloaded is spat 5.2.0. I copy and paste the folder in Users/marcelapavia/Documenti/Max 7/Packages
3-I launched Max and opened a Spat help patch. It didn’t work
Some things seem to be evident:
1-the system doesn’t ask if I want to open the file anyway, somehow spat is recognized by the system
2-spat seems to have no quarantine (quarantine was eliminated and it didn’t work anyway)
3-Still Max is not able to load it
The problem must be somewhere else but I cannot see where. I hope you can solve it
Thank you
Marcy
Hi,
Spat is properly notarized, so it’s normal that it is recognized and accepted by the OS.
Still Max is not able to load it
Is it still the same error message ?? Please describe the problem(s) precisely. Again : screenshots can help.
You say that you copy spat in “/Users/marcelapavia/Documenti/Max 7/Packages” but the error message refers to “/Users/marcelapavia/Documents/Max 7/Packages”…
“Documenti” is not the same as “Documents” … Could it be the cause of your problem ?
Do you have other Packages installed in that folder, and working ?
Can you also try out with Max 8 please ?
Thank you very much! The problem was the file path in Max File Preferences. Max was looking for the folder Documents and not hat actual file in Documenti. I gave the correct file path and now is working! I hope that is all!
Marcy