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andy edited this page Jan 23, 2021 · 1 revision

This is an easy way you can get more information about what is happening if Avara crashes or hangs. Development may ask you to do this to gather more information about an issue you are facing.

First, open Terminal.app. You can press CMD + SPACE and type "Term" and press "Enter": MacOS X Sherlock offering Terminal.app

Drag Avara.app wherever you have it located, into the Terminal window. Here, its on the desktop:

Dragging Avara.app into the Terminal.app window

This pastes the current path of Avara.app into the Terminal window, which is exactly what we need. But we are going to edit it a little bit. Delete the space after .../Avara.app, then copy and paste /Contents/MacOS/Avara into the Terminal window.

Adding /Contents/MacOS/Avara to the end of the app path

Now press Enter. The application should launch, while leaving this terminal window open and printing out informational and debug messages. You're done! Game console messages, showing a single player start and self-destruct

Note that you can easily launch the game again this way by opening Terminal.app again and pressing the Up Arrow key to fill in your previous command.

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