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Scrivener Crashing

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Luke Murray
Luke Murray
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Attempting to open Scrivener and having the application closing on you, the common way to fix this is adjust the file permissions follow the instructions below to repair.

  1. Open a Terminal (Applications/Utilities) 
  2. Type: sudo chmod -R 0755 /Applications/Scrivener.app
  3. Press Enter
  4. Open Scrivener again.

Note: This fix has also been able to work on other OSX Applications that have problems launching.