Preferences windows will not open (due to missing default settings) about syncthing-macos

[xor-gate]

You need to set the preferences to where syncthing is running and the API key. There is no auto-configure or auto-detect yet of a running syncthing instance.

[muellmaa]

if I click on "Preferences" in the tray app, NOTHING happens...
I can only click on "Open", "About" and "Quit" :-)

[xor-gate]

Is the preferences window not poped-under other windows?

[muellmaa]

no. it's just not opening...

[xor-gate]

Which version are you running (about) ? I build/develop from macOS Sierra. And v0.14.8-1 works fine.

[muellmaa]

I just downloaded this:
Syncthing-0.14.8-1.dmg, moved to applications and started... perhaps I'm doing something completely wrong then ;-)

[xor-gate]

Thats weird, it should "work out of the box" like you describe. Have you tried to quit and open it again?

[muellmaa]

yes. multiple times... it's the same on my Mac Pro and my Mac mini...

I thought the same: downloading, drag'n'drop and double-click should work :-S I mean no compiling is required, right? I'm not really a techie...

this evening I'll try it on a MacBook Pro.

[xor-gate]

No the drag-and-drop is for users, with a builtin auto-updater. I'm clueless why no window is showing. Does no window open at all? Even the about window?

[muellmaa]

the about window appears normally

[xor-gate]

The preferences window should behave to same :=(

[muellmaa]

same thing on a MacBook Pro...

[xor-gate]

There are many downloads already, you are the first one reporting this. Could you send me a email to see if I can remote fix with teamviewer?

[muellmaa]

email out, thx!

[muellmaa]

Terminal output:

2016-10-16 16:28:38.877 Syncthing[1883:66078] *** Assertion failure in -[NSButtonCell setStringValue:], /Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/AppKit/AppKit-1504/AppKit.subproj/NSButtonCell.m:2391

[xor-gate]

It seems the default configuration loading fails. You need to open Terminal.app and write the default config with some commands:

defaults write com.github.xor-gate.syncthing-macosx URI "http://localhost:8384"
defaults write com.github.xor-gate.syncthing-macosx ApiKey "1234"
defaults write com.github.xor-gate.syncthing-macosx StartAtLogin "false"

[xor-gate]

This is where the magic happens:

https://github.com/xor-gate/syncthing-macosx/blob/master/syncthing/STPreferencesGeneralViewController.m#L24-L26

[xor-gate]

I have probably a fix in commit afff54d. I will create a new release.

[xor-gate]

It should be fixed now for fresh installs. You can update: About -> Check for update. Could you verify it works? You may close the issue then.

You can read/delete all default application settings from the terminal:

defaults read com.github.xor-gate.syncthing-macosx
defaults delete com.github.xor-gate.syncthing-macosx

[muellmaa]

it's working perfectly now! thanks!

[xor-gate]

Awesome!