[chimerax-users] Chimera X Runs But does Not Install

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Anthony,
When you double-click the downloaded dmg file, eventually an installer will appear and in it, there is the ChimeraX app represented by an icon.  But then you need to drag the icon somewhere onto your system, e.g drag onto your Desktop, and/or use Finder to show the Applications folder and then drag the icon into there (or whichever folder that you want to contain the ChimeraX app).  It will take a while to copy it onto your system. 

If you just doubleclick the icon shown in the installer, it will run, but will not copy it onto your system.  I'm guessing that is what was happening.

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco


> On Jul 22, 2022, at 2:03 PM, Anthony Morgan via ChimeraX-users <chimerax-users at cgl.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> I’m new to Chimera X, so I am probably doing something wrong. Hope you can help please.
> 
> I have ‘installed' either v1.3 and, more recently, 1.4 on my Macbook Air (under OSX 10.15.5; 1.1GHz processor, Intel Iris Plus Graphics 1536 MB).
> 
> 	• Whilst I can run Chimera X fine (the first time after ‘installing'), it doesn’t appear to be installed locally on my laptop (that I can find).
> 	• If I close the App and try and reopen in, it’s not local, and I have to run the Install .dmg every time I want to ‘run’ it, which takes an age.
> 	• Under Security > Privacy, Chimera has Full Disk Access.
> 
> Is this normal behaviour?
> 
> Thanks for any advice.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anthony