I ran the cat, and then I copy/pasted the line above…now what?
Now run this again:
sudo cat ~/Library/Preferences/kritarc
It should tell you no file was found. If so, try running Krita again.
I did what you said…Krita still won’t open.
It even said that no file was found.
After you ran krita again, run the cat command again. Is cat finding the file now?
Lets try moving the resource folder too:
sudo mv ~/Library/Application Support/Krita/ ~/Library/Application Support/Krita2/
Then try opening Krita again
I ran the cat command again…no file is found. Also copy/pasted that command…
mv: Support/Krita2/ is not a directory
@KnowZero Does a directory name with a space in it need to be enclosed in quotes?
2 Likes
Sorry, try this:
sudo mv "~/Library/Application Support/Krita/" "~/Library/Application Support/Krita2/"
@AhabGreybeard yes, copy and paste fail
no such file or directory.
Look, does anyone have a Discord? I can just be on a call and screen share.
If you are not getting it, that means there is no resource folder.
Try running Krita as super user
sudo /Applications/krita.app/Contents/MacOS/krita
Sorry, I don’t use discord 
It opened! How do I keep it this waaaaaaayyy?!
Wait, but my downloads and documents weren’t showing up, so I closed Krita, and now it won’t open again!!!
Will it run if you run is as super user, like you just did?
As a side issue: We’ve seen that the ‘kritarc’ file did exist where it was supposed to be even though you couldn’t find it.
Now that the application is running then the ‘kritarc’ file and the ‘krita’ resources folder do obviously exist where they are supposed to exist.
It would be a good idea to learn how to use your File Manager (or whatever its name is) to find these files.
As for keeping it running, it seems you can run it as super user via the command line.
I don’t know enough about Macs to know why this is happening. One possibility is that the permissions/ownership of ‘kritarc’ and/or the ‘krita’ folder were messed up so that they were not owned by you or did not have permissions for you.
To sort that out, you need to learn how to drive the File Manager and examine/change permissions on files and folders.
You may need to run File Manager as a super user to do that.
It won’t open as super user again?
That said, since it failed to open normally and opened as super user, it sounds like a permission issue.
1 Like
This.
Not butting in, just following along since I was involved in this early on and as an old computer engineer am always interested…
1 Like
See, I’ve gone through my System Preferences, and went through all of the Security and Privacy area where I usually have to grant permission for apps and such (or at least for certain parts like screen recording), and nothing’s there. Or at least anything that I’ve missed and needed to change to make this all magically better.
See, I could switch to a different program, but I have so many WIPS that it’s not possible.
It’s just weird because how this all happened was I just used the text tool…everything froze…and boom
When you first installed krita on this Macbook, was it a trouble free experience with no strange or unusual sytem messages?
If you have a second user account running with no problem (as it seemed you have) then you can use that account and transfer the .kra files over to that account to carry on working from there.
If I was in this situation, I’d nuke krita on the main account (config files and resources folder then uninstall) then try to install it again.
Doing that would lose any personal/custom resources you have.
1 Like
I would suggest not opening application with root privileges. You need to delete your resource and setting folder ans start fresh. The manual that I linked has the file locations.
How do I do that? I’m going to need a step by step process XD
Step 1: Uninstall the krita application from your Macbook.
Step 2: Go to the ‘~/Library/Applications Support’ folder and delete the ‘krita’ folder there and any file that is called ‘krita(something)’ which may be there.
Step 3: Go to the ‘~/Library/Preferences’ folder and delete the ‘kritarc’ file and any file called ‘krita(something)’ which may be there. (You’ll have ‘kritadisplayrc’ there and possibly other files depending on what you’ve previously done with the application.)
That is very wise advice in general.
However, if you have a permissions problem with kritarc or the the krita resources folder, running your File Finder/Manager with root privileges is the easiest way to delete them.
You must not create or copy any files in that situation because those files would then probably have permissions which would prevent you from using them (as an ordinary user).
As for the situation where you can’t see files on your computer, that is something that is totally alien to me because I can see every file on my computer, even if I can’t (as an ordinary user) delete some of them.
You need to give your File Manager a good talking to and make sure it understands who owns your computer.
1 Like
See, here’s the problem. I can’t seem to find anything Krita related, besides the application, the download program (where you move the icon to the applications folder), and all my WIPS. Legit nothing else.
However, I’ve now already deleted everything Krita related (not my WIPS) that came up in my Finder Search. No kritarc and such. Even after I’ve revealed hidden files and dug through all those.
Try this command:
sudo dir ~/Library/Preferences/kritarc
If kritarc is there then it will tell you the full file path.