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• Supported Operating Systems
  • macOS
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Rocrail is available for macOS since version Leopard for both Intel and Power PC.

1. Check your Security settings if necessary. (macOS Lion or newer.)
2. Download the DMG Package that fits for your Platform.
3. Open the DMG by double click.
4. Drag&Drop the Rocrail.app in to the Applications folder.
5. A directory, "~/rocrail", is automatically created with the default rocview.ini and plan.xml after the first start of the Rocrail App.
6. Open a Workspace in this directory: "~/rocrail".

(The tilde represents the user home directory: /Users/<username>)

Select "Anywhere" to allow installation on macOS Lion+:

Starting with macOS Sierra there is no longer an option "Anywhere" available.

How to start the Rocrail.app if macOS blocks it.
After a double click on the Rocrail.app this exception will occur.	Open the context menu of the Rocrail.app and click on Open.	The same exception popup occurs, but this time with an Open button.

If macOS refuses to open the Rocrail.app please check:

• howtorunappsthatarenotfromtheappstoreinmacossierra_public_beta_macworld.pdf

Check the manual of the product which Chipset is used for selecting the right device driver.

Use the /dev/tty.* device instead of the /dev/cu.*!

Just use following command in a Terminal window to check your system for available serial devices:

macbook:~ jack$ ls -l /dev/tty.*
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   17,   8 26 Feb 20:01 /dev/tty.Bluetooth-Modem
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   17,   4 26 Feb 20:01 /dev/tty.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   17,   0 26 Feb 20:01 /dev/tty.usbserial-00001124
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel   17,   2 26 Feb 20:01 /dev/tty.usbserial-A10048Md

In this case there are two serial devices listed:

• /dev/tty.usbserial-00001124
• /dev/tty.usbserial-A10048Md

Alternatively the System Information utility can be used to check the USB device name.

• Mouse blocks after connecting the USB-RS23.