Can’t Open Resolve on new Mac Mini

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Hey David,

Mac Mini comes in many flavours.
Please share the specs of your new box.

Although, I don’t think that it is hardware related, but more likely a question of updating the OS and checking your security preferences to make sure that the Davinci and Blackmagic can “communicate”.

There are tutorials on how to install both Davinci v19 and 20 on the same Mac, maybe choose one or the other and make that work first – unless you’ve already tried that?
https://youtu.be/NdB0gw6Cjf0?si=wouTWgb9DQuHX5Fz

Hope this helps?

Atb
Mads

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[David Butterfield]

First of all, thank you for responding, very kind of you. The Mini is an M4 but not pro, delivered with Sequoia 15+. No peripherals except mouse and keyboard and data drives if I ever get that far. Other things factory loaded in the dock launch normally, and DaV 20 is the only thing I’ve tried to download and install myself. Everything is normal until it’s on the dock and then, when I punch it, it just asks for the install again with uninstall and the manual in the same window. Of course I tried a number of times, same results. Also thought to try 19 and did that via a link on the BMD support page. Same thing: Normal download and install but it won’t launch in 19 either. Having had 17 on a Windows machine for a few years I know DaV can be sensitive and hang up or crash, but by and large it’s been great for light editing. That’s all I want for this new Mac but am of course frustrated that it won’t even open. Not a computer expert but I will try some things if it means getting this up and running. Also have a ticket in at BMD. Very much appreciate any insights or ideas.

[Michael Gissing]

I haven’t been on Mac for years but it sounds like you don’t have the launch icon on your dock, just the downloaded installer. Using Finder, go to applications and look for the Resolve launch icon and try opening that way first. If that works then you need to get that correct launch icon on your dock

[David Butterfield]

Thank you for replying! Well I do know what the icon looks like as it’s on my Windows toolbar right now and I had it (17) running on this desktop earlier today. When I download DaV 19 or 20 to the Mac Mini I get the installer, run it, get a success window, and an icon on the dock. I punch it and it ask me to run the installer again. I’m beginning to think I missed something on the initial set up, or, as a few others have suggested, either my new Mini or the downloads of Resolve are corrupted somehow. Other factory loaded programs on the Mini dock open normally. Going to keep trying and maybe even go for a Black Friday deal on Adobe stuff, which I have always avoided, but I do need to get this Mac mini up and running for editing on something soon. Thanks to all for any ideas.

[Francois Jean]

I have had a surprising event with a fully functional 20.2.3 DaVinci install on Mac mini M4pro (sequoia ) that suddenly did not want to launch , so thinking of corruption I updated TO 20.3 same problem… I realized one of my media drive used in a project was off line and that was the culprit !

Usually loading DVR to project window showed projects with off line shots with red project but it seems this is a problem now.

Hope this could explain your situation?

This must be a bug, never had that happen since DVR v8

[David Butterfield]

Thanks to all.