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VBE won't load on Mac computer

Anonymous — Tue, 09 May 2023 11:15:21 GMT

Hi.

I have a file which I have converted to a VBE file. I have saved it for MAC/PC on my Mac Pro.

When I try to open this file (18mb) on my Macbook Pro, nothing happens. It won't open.

Does anyone have Idea of what might be the problem. ?

My macbook pro has following specs.:
2.8 GHZ - 2 Core
4GB - Ram DDR3
256 MB Videocard

I have tried downloading the biggest sample VBE file from Graphisoft homepage, and this file works fine. (61mb)

Re: VBE won't load on Mac computer

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 04 May 2011 21:53:40 GMT

Not sure what you mean by saving for "MAC/PC". Each is a separate Save menu item - the Mac save creates a OS X app file and the Windows save creates a Windows exe file.

Any chance you are trying to open the Windows exe on your Mac?

Karl

Re: VBE won't load on Mac computer

Anonymous — Thu, 05 May 2011 06:45:16 GMT

No offcourse. I have saced for both versions. And only tested the mac version.

When I try to open the Mac version. It doesn't open.

Re: VBE won't load on Mac computer

Karl Ottenstein — Thu, 05 May 2011 16:22:00 GMT

You might try using Disk Utility to repair your permissions (one possibility). Otherwise, you may have to reinstall VBE.

Inside the VBE add-on folder are the viewer executable for Mac and Win. These are bundled with the model when you save a VBE file. It sounds like somehow either the viewer itself or the resulting file is either corrupt or has the wrong access permissions.

As a side note while you work this out, while the viewer apps that you create are read-only (they cannot modify the viewpoints/settings and save new copies) - the main VBE application can OPEN those files and read the rendered (if you used global illumination) model for you to re-save it for another platform, or in this case, after permissions repair / reinstall.

Good luck,
Karl

Re: VBE won't load on Mac computer

Anonymous — Thu, 05 May 2011 19:04:59 GMT

Hi Karl

Suddenly it worked for me. I don't know what I did.

But it is nice to know what to try if it does it again.

regards Martin