VW 2022 requires force quit on Mac

[AmyRWolfe]

I just noticed that when I'm done for the day and shutting down VW, I get the spinning wheel, and it will not quit.  I have to do a Force Quit to close the program.  I have Mac OS Big Sur.  Is there a fix for this?

[zoomer]

I had this too with one or two versions of macOS 12 Monterey Public Beta (PB 9-10 ?)

but it disappeared again with one of the latest PBs or release copies.

 

Maybe your Big Sur had an (security?) update lately too ?

[Grethe Connerth]

Hi @AmyRWolfe, hi @zoomer

I was experiencing the very same problem. I contacted tech support and the below helped to solve it.

Cheers,

Grethe

 

OzCAD now Vectorworks Australia:

"When you launched v2022 for the first time the Migration Manager comes up. Did you migrate any old settings out of interest?

 

I would try the following to see if this stops the program crashing upon quit.

 

Go to Vectorworks Preferences > User Folders tab.

Then click the Reveal in Finder button. This will take you to your 2022 user folder.

Leave that Finder window open then return to Vectorworks and quit.

Back in the 2022 Finder window, rename the Settings folder to 'Settings OLD' then open Vectorworks again.

 

Hopefully that might fix it."

[AmyRWolfe]

I updated my Mac and that fixed the problem.

 

[rDesign]

I’ve been having this same issue with Vw2022 as well. About every other time I try to quit Vw2022, I get the spinning beach ball, the internal fans spin up to full speed and I have to Force Quit.
 

I had already reset my User Preferences folder as suggested above several months ago, I guess I’ll have to try it again. 

Edited October 14, 2022 by rDesign