Posted by
Aryeh Weiss on
Oct 11, 2016; 8:17am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/macos-sierra-tp5017325p5017345.html
Hi Curtis
Thanks for your reply.
On 10/10/2016 22:34, Curtis Rueden wrote:
> Hi Aryeh,
>
> > Has anyone on list running FIji upgraded to macos sierra? If so, what
> > (if any) problems were encountered?
>
> I upgraded to Sierra as soon as was released, expecting something or
> other to go wrong with ImageJ because of it. I was pleasantly
> surprised that it all seems fine.
>
> Actually, I think Apple fixed at least one memory leak:
>
http://forum.imagej.net/t/memory-not-clearing-over-time/2137/15?u=ctrueden>
> However, it does not fix everything -- the horrible Mac speed issues
> are not resolved:
>
http://forum.imagej.net/t/mac-java-speed-issues/304>
> Fortunately, Wayne's workaround of not setting the menu bar on new
> windows avoids the worst of it, for the time being.
>
> > I downloaded a fresh copy of Fiji, and it worked correctly. I did not
> > want to replace my installation, so I found that if I replaced the
> > Contents directory ( Fiji.app/Contents ), it solved the problem.
>
> That is certainly safe and reasonable. It is not supposed to be
> necessary -- the ImageJ Updater is supposed to update the launcher in
> the Contents folder -- but perhaps it did not for some reason. See
> also
>
http://imagej.net/Frequently_Asked_Questions#How_can_I_verify_that_my_ImageJ_is_really_100.25_up_to_date.3F>
Following these instructions, I found that it reported fiji-macosx and
fiji-tiger as uninstalled. I dont know if this caused a problem, but
following the recommendation in this link I set them to be installed. At
least I can say that doing so did not break anything.
> > the bigger hassle will be macports, where some ports are not yet
> > working in sierra.
>
> Have you tried Homebrew (
http://brew.sh/)? I like it better than
> MacPorts and all seems to be working for me on Sierra so far.
>
I have played with Homebrew, but I am fairly heavily set up with
macports, and having two package managers causes confusion. If I was
starting over, I might have started with Homebrew.
Anyway, the transition went ok, using these instructions:
https://trac.macports.org/wiki/MigrationBest regards
--aryeh
> Regards,
> Curtis
>
> --
> Curtis Rueden
> LOCI software architect -
http://loci.wisc.edu/software> ImageJ2 lead, Fiji maintainer -
http://imagej.net/User:Rueden> Did you know ImageJ has a forum?
http://forum.imagej.net/>
>
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 4:40 AM, Aryeh Weiss <
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> <mailto:
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>
> On 09/10/2016 22:11, James Harris wrote:
>
> Hello Aryeh,
>
> I run Fiji on an iMac running macOS sierra, and only had one
> problem. After updating to sierra I tried to run Fiji from its
> desktop icon and kept getting the message that I had to
> install Java, which was already on my system. So I went to the
> oracle site downloaded jre-8u101-macosx-x64.dmg, and ran it.
> But still got the same error message until I tried executing
> Fiji directly from my applications folder this worked, so I
> copied the Fiji app from this folder to my desktop, and it
> runs perfectly.. Since then I have not encountered any problems.
>
> Jim.
>
> Thanks for this information. I also encountered this problem, and
> running Fiji from the Applications folder did not help. Running
> the ImageJ-macosx file from Contents/MacOS did work, but this is
> not how I wanted to run it.
>
> I downloaded a fresh copy of Fiji, and it worked correctly. I did
> not want to replace my installation, so I found that if I replaced
> the Contents directory ( Fiji.app/Contents ), it solved the
> problem. Someone who knows the MacOS launcher better than I might
> be able to explain this, and suggest a more elegant fix.
> I did not proceed to replace the individual files, so I do not
> know if info.plist or ImageJ-macosx (or both) are responsible.
>
> --aryeh
>
>
>
> On 9 Oct 2016, at 17:57, Aryeh Weiss <
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>
> Has anyone on list running FIji upgraded to macos sierra?
> If so, what (if any) problems were encountered?
>
> --aryeh
>
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