go to Launchpad or whatever you are using:
type: Terminal, Enter
then a weird little window will open and wait for you to do amazing things with the command line
with
cd /Applications/EVE Launcher.app/Contents/MacOS
you change your working directory to “inside” the EVE Launcher (press “tab” after the first 2-3 chars of each word for autocomplete)
then type:
./evelauncher -s
And the Launcher will start without updating itself. Keep the Terminal Window open, or the Launcher will close with it.
If you have already updated to High Sierra you won’t need any of that though.
puh. so i opened termineal typed in “cd /Applications/EVE Launcher.app/Contents/MacOS” and then?
if i hit enter nothing happens except " no such file directory"
Thank you for posting this! Unfortunately, terminal only tells me no such file or directory when I enter that.
I attempted it different ways, such as thinking perhaps ‘cd’ should be changed to my harddrive name, but it said the same thing every time. But, I don’t know what ‘Launchpad’ is, either, I was trying it just from opening terminal from system utilities. I also tried copying the directory on its ‘get info’ window, to make sure it was correct in terminal, so it couldn’t have been an issue of typos. Do you have a suggestion?
In Finder, go to the Applications Directory, find the “EVE Launcher”
Rightclick on it, open its info-window (for instance, rightclick + “get info”).
There you should find “Where:” the Launcher is.
With that information, go to Terminal again, you can also copy it directly from the info-window (for me it is under “General” in the 3rd line, but it may be different for you)
“cd” is for change directory
now, in Terminal, write
cd “paste” (so either type exactly what is in the info-window under “where” or simply copy+paste)
(if you type manually here, do not forget the leading “/”)
This is should mean you are in the Application-folder of your mac.
type
“pwd” and it shows you the directory you are currently in
now, if you type “ls” (lowercase L, lowercase S), it should list the programs in that folder.
you should see “EVE Launcher” there somewhere
type:
cd EVE (and then press “tab” it should auto-complete)
then again
cd Contents/MacOS
then “pwd” again and tell me where you are
if you are in something called …/EVE Launcher…/Contents/MacOS/ you are where you should be
Then:
“./evelauncher -s”
don’t forget the leading . and / otherwise nothing will happen
i appreciate your help. but i do only understand like half of what your talking about . but however, it doesnt work. i chosed the right path/directory and all…still same message " no such file directory"
Well do you have OSX and it is currently working for you or not?
Did you already update to High Sierra? In this case you can simply start the Launcher as usual and after the Update it should work fine.
If you are still at a lower version of OSX, but you accidentally updated the EVE Launcher, you need to re-install an old version of the EVE Launcher (I linked it above after you asked).
great that it works for you, have fun