Incomplete installation on MacOS, file permission issue ?

[JRSN]

Hi All,

After hours of reading this forum, I could not find a solution to an annoying issue I have with nRF Connect SDK installation on macOS Sonoma.

Please kindly note that I don't want to go through manual installation ;-)

Whenever I try to install the SDK (both via the nRF Connect for desktop App or from with Visual Studio Code):

- in my development account, the SDK directory is not populated at first and further, any attempt to "Update SDK" does not populate it neither

- in my "root" account, the SDK directory is properly populated and the visual studio environment is ready for development.

    - but when back in my account, the visual studio nRF panel, "WELCOME" zone, only allows to create a blank application: the "copy from sample" is missing.

I have redone the automatic process many times, rebooted in between, deleted the installed directories, ...

No way to succeed

Any help would be much appreciated !

[JRSN]

Hi Øyvind,

A short message to tell you that I am now using another Mac for development, fully erased and reset.

The nRF Connect for Desktop went through nicely and I can now see the samples listed when trying to create a new application from Nordic's nRF samples.

Hence I reached the point I was wanting to be back to for months.

I suspect the previous development Mac had to many years of incremental installs, configurations, different software releases and file privileges variations.

Thanks for your help and the one of Charlie too.

I really value Nordic's support in such hindering situations.

Best regards

JRSN

[Øyvind]

JRSN said:

Thanks for your help and the one of Charlie too.

I really value Nordic's support in such hindering situations.

My apologies for the late reply. I am really happy to hear that you found the solution to your issue. I agree that "many years of incremental installs, configurations, different software releases and file privileges variations" could be the root cause of the issue. 

Hope you are able to develop without any issues from here

Kind regards,
Øyvind