[BUG] MacOS GUI disappears when moving app from installed location

[FredsMedia]

Bug Description

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Open application in one location on fresh install (e.g. Desktop)
2. Close app and move to a different location (e.g. Applications Folder)
3. Open app
4. No main menu GUI

Screenshots

Info (please complete the following information):

• Operating system: MacOS
• App version: 3.18.1
• Package version (flatpak/snap/other): N/A (The intel mac app)

[FredsMedia]

If i copy it back to the desktop there is still no GUI. I have also tried deleting the application support folder and relaunching but that hasn't helped. Is there some way to make it do the initial setup again?

[aandrew-me]

Which file are you downloading, . dmg or . app?

[FredsMedia]

i got the x64 .dmg

[aandrew-me]

I tested on an intel Mac just now, it loads but it just takes a lot of time. It took 35 seconds for that button to appear. I will look into why its happening

[FredsMedia]

huh, so it does. It doesnt seem to use heaps of resources...

[aandrew-me]

Apparently there some issue with the yt-dlp executable. That's what's causing it.

Its executing the command

/Users/$USER/.ytDownloader/ytdlp --version

Which is taking a very long time

[FredsMedia]

yep. I ran that myself and it about matches the startup time.

[aandrew-me]

Yeah seems to be some issue with the newer versions of yt-dlp, I tried with an older version and it ran fast

[aandrew-me]

I will see what I can do

[aandrew-me]

I have opened an issue there, you may add a comment too https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10826

[FredsMedia]

Welp, it looks like they aren't doing/can't do anything about it. Would there be a way to skip the version check?

[aandrew-me]

Well the issue isnt just the version check, any command executed with yt-dlp will be slow, getting video info, downloading video...

[aandrew-me]

Thumbs down to Macos, I guess I will have to take a different approach with Mac. Can you please try executing-

python3 --version

[FredsMedia]

Thumbs down to Macos, I guess I will have to take a different approach with Mac. Can you please try executing-

python3 --version

Sure.

Python 3.11.2

[aandrew-me]

Great thanks! Did you install python by yourself or was it already there?

[FredsMedia]

I believe that version was preinstalled

[aandrew-me]

Great, thanks

[aandrew-me]

Then this issue should be fixed in next update

[FredsMedia]

What are ya planning to do?

[aandrew-me]

yt-dlp also provides a script which requires python to be installed in the system. You can try downloading it and checking its version

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/download/2024.08.06/yt-dlp

[aandrew-me]

I will switch to that for macos, the drawback will be that embedding of thumbnails will likely not be possible

[FredsMedia]

I know macOS provides a version of python, I’m not sure what version it installs as I have installed a newer version of python myself. It should still work though.

[aandrew-me]

As far as I know, it requires python 3.8 or greater. I will have to add that to info

[FredsMedia]

Lemme check the default version real quick

[FredsMedia]

It seems to be python 3.9.6, so it should work.

[aandrew-me]

Okay great

[FredsMedia]

I mean if it doesn’t work, you’ll know pretty quick 😅

[aandrew-me]

Let me know how it goes in the latest update

[FredsMedia]

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a898e07c-5b1d-4da6-86bf-cbf07245612f

loads up waaaay faster now, i'll download a video later to test that too but so far it looks good!

[FredsMedia]

Yep, it seems like it's working fine (but significantly faster ofc)

[aandrew-me]

Awesome!