Dear oldcolonel, X-Air, and WeatherCat troubleshooters,
The manual says on page 29 that the controller opens when you start weathercat. I have to open the controller. I would like to have it as my home window. What do I need to do?
WeatherCat is supposed to retain the state that it was in when you quit. So when you quit WeatherCat the controller window is open, but it doesn't get opened when you launch WeatherCat again?
Usually, this is a sign of a corrupted preference file. If that's the problem you'll probably need to delete the file and set all your preferences again. If you have some settings that were difficult to make, write down the settings before following this procedure.
- Quit WeatherCat
- Drag the WeatherCat preference file to the trash It is called com.trixology.weathercat.plist and can be found in:
~/Library/Preferences/com.trixology.weathercat.plist
That is the UNIX convention for the file path. Let us know if you need further explanation on this. - Empty the trash
- Restart your Mac
- Only then can you restart WeatherCat and start putting back your preferences
If you don't follow this procedure, macOS will restore the corrupted file from a data cache. Unfortunately, recent versions of macOS have an unfortunate tendency of corrupting preference files. When you get your preferences the way you like them, you might want to make a backup copy for save keeping.
Cheers, Edouard