How to Open Rapid Weaver in Terminal

You use Rapid Weaver. You’ve downloaded the latest greatest plugin and can’t wait to try it out. You install it …and… nothing. After contacting the developer, and they go through basic trouble shooting with you. That goes no-where. Eager for more information on the issue, the developer asks you to please open Rapid Weaver in the Terminal, and copy-paste any output to them.

This article describes exactly how to do this.

First, you’re going to open Terminal. It is located within the “Utilities” sub-folder of your standard “Applications” directory.

Next, open Terminal.

Now find Rapid Weaver, and drag it into the open Terminal window.

Next, paste the following onto the end the line in Terminal that was created when you dropped Rapid Weaver onto it:

/Contents/MacOS/RapidWeaver

Make sure that there is no space between “RapidWeaver.app” and the extra text you’ve pasted. It should look something like this:

Now, click inside the Terminal and press Enter. Notice that Rapid Weaver will start, and some (possibly a lot!) text will appear in the Terminal window. This text is gold for developers.

If whatever issue you’re experiencing requires certain actions to replicate, perform those actions – Rapid Weaver might be printing information related to the issue in the Terminal. After you’ve replicated the issue, select all of the text inside the Terminal window and paste it into an email, then send it off to whoever you’re working with.

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