Thread: Dealing with Kindle for PC/Mac 1.19 and KFX in calibre
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Old 12-04-2019, 11:48 PM   #666
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Originally Posted by Amazondoc View Post
Gah.

I had this all set up and running in Catalina -- but suddenly the Kindle-for-Mac app decided it would never open again. Ever. Dunno why -- but I was also doing a lot of overloading the RAM with bazillions of Firefox tabs at the time, and getting a lot of kernel panics. I mean, like 40 or 50 crashes. The crashes have calmed down since I pared down the windows and tabs open, but the Kindle app still won't open.

I originally used the "chmod -x /Applications/Kindle.app/Contents/MacOS/renderer-test" string; if I want to remove that to see if I can get the app to open, do I use "chmod +x (etc.)"?

I know you've posted this instruction somewhere, but now that I need it I can't find it.

If you have any other suggestions, any ideas would be welcomed!
Yes, changing chmod -x to chmod +x will undo chmod -x and re-enable renderer-test. (Note: this will give you KFX that Alf can't deal with.)

You might also try deleting the Kindle for Mac app and re-installing it. But delete only the app itself. Do not delete anything else, leave everything in your Library folder untouched.

Good luck!
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