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It can detect when you blow in the microphone.

It can take advantage of the motion sensor on a laptop.

Like AppZapper, it is a simple and sexy utility.

You can find it at GitHub or, if you are very trusting and in a rush, just run this line in Terminal.Still have no idea what it is? We're not surprised.

Update: I have had this happen enough times that I made a shell script to somewhat automate the process. My thanks to Kyle Demilo aka for his help solving this mystery, and clearly living up to his Twitter name. My hope is that someone having this issue may find this page via Google, etc.

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I hope Apple is more aware of this type of problem than they sometimes appear to be.īut until the world is how we wish it would be, we have to figure out how to make do with it as it is.

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This is also yet another problem with Mac software that will never show up in crash logs, because the app never crashed, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t broken. This is the sort of thing that, I assume, makes users who prefer iOS over OS X point and say “See! This is what I don’t want to have to deal with!” There’s no way most casual OS X users are going to know to try these steps, nor should they need to. The next time I launched the App Store app, it loaded almost immediately. That was what finally fixed the problem for me. (Remember when Mac users used to be able to make fun of Windows users for having to reboot to fix problems? Good times.) I had done the first 3 but did not reboot and the app still did not work properly. That’s why you want to use the menu item.

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That folder can be in different places, depending on… well, actually, I have no idea, but the menu item for “Show Download Folder” show me a folder at: Mac App Store Debug Menuįirst discovered by Daniel Jalkut, the developer behind Red Sweater Software (Mars Edit, BlackInk, FastScripts, and more), the Mac App Store’s debug menu gives you some nifty features, but the one we are interested in today is “Show Download Folder”: Once you do that, you can quit Terminal.app and re-launch the App Store app. To make sure it worked, copy/paste this line:ĭefaults read ShowDebugMenuĪnd you should get “ 1” (one) as a response. Make sure the Mac App Store app is not running and then copy/paste the line into Terminal:ĭefaults write ShowDebugMenu -bool true In this case, we are going to enter a very simple command. (Plus, you have good backups, right? Right?) I know the Terminal.app scares some people, but the good news is that System Integrity Protection means that it is much harder to do catastrophic damage in Terminal, even if you make a mistake.

~/Library/Application Support/App Store.

In this case, it showed that it would remove these folders/files: Tip: If you control-click on the items in the App Zapper window, it will offer to show the selected item in the Finder, so you can be sure what it will remove.

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(You may have a license from an “app bundle” – I think that is where I first learned about it.)Īfter un-checking the preference for “Keep Apple applications safe” I dragged the App Store.app icon to the AppZapper window and un-checked the first box next to the app itself since I didn’t want to try to delete the app, just its various preference files. It’s $13 and well worth the price for situations like this. My next go-to app in situations like this is AppZapper. Neither of those did anything to fix it, so I moved on to more advanced ideas. Fixing it was tricky, even for an experienced Mac user like myself, so I thought I’d share what worked for me in case you ever find yourself in that situation.įirst I tried to think what a non-“power user” would try to do in that situation, and came up with basically two ideas: I left it like that overnight and when I came back the next morning it was still spinning. Recently I found myself in a bind: the Mac App Store app on my Retina MacBook would launch, but would not show me anything except a little spinning circle near the top-left corner.