Saturday late afternoon - nearly finished preparing, and …

AndrewK

Hi to anyone who might be awake and able to offer some guidance to me.

As the title says, it is Saturday late afternoon here. I’ve almost finished preparing my service for tomorrow morning. I saved the service and quit OpenLP then left the computer when someone came to see me. An hour later, and OpenLP won’t even start.

I have logged out of my user account and back in. No change.
I rebooted the computer and logged back in. No change.
I tried suggestions that @jlgtx posted about starting from the command line. No change.

Other than resorting to my backup machine, an old Intel MacBook Pro with only 2GB Ram, and having to recreate the service from scratch, does anyone have any suggestions for me about how to get OpenLP up and running, now?

I’m running on a MacBook Pro M1 Pro. I had been using OpenLP 3.1.7, but currently there is no version number showing. I’ve been meaning to ask someone about that.

funkydan2

AndrewK

By 'won't even start', do you mean there's nothing showing on the screen (other than the icon bouncing in the dock)?
When you run OpenLP from the command line, is there any output?
Have you tried moving the service file to another location? (As in, if you've saved it in Documents then move it to Desktop. Then start OpenLP.
Have you tried reinstalling the app? (You could delete it first, but even just installing it over the top could repair corrupted files.)
Have you made a backup and then deleted the data directories?

AndrewK

funkydan2 thank you so much for your reply. I've been so busy recreating the service until now that I haven't stopped to look for replies.

funkydan2 By 'won't even start', do you mean there's nothing showing on the screen (other than the icon bouncing in the dock)?

One, maybe two, bounces of the icon in the dock. And that's it.

funkydan2 When you run OpenLP from the command line, is there any output?

No output whatsoever.

funkydan2 Have you tried moving the service file to another location? (As in, if you've saved it in Documents then move it to Desktop. Then start OpenLP.

Yes. Moved location. Sorry, I forgot that was one of the things I tried. No change.

funkydan2 Have you tried reinstalling the app? (You could delete it first, but even just installing it over the top could repair corrupted files.)

I considered that move very seriously, and more than a few times! I just didn't know what possible further damage I might cause. So no, I didn't do that.

I have been busy the past few hours recreating the service because OpenLP has started in a newly created user account. However, even though I pointed the data folder back to the original user's data folder, none of my custom slides, themes, song edits, let's face it, nothing is there!

It's nearly 1:00 A.M. and I'm about half way through recreating the service. A long night is ahead of me …

Back to work. Blessings all.