I am trying to test a minimal UI file, and when I try to open it with Designer, it fails to launch. I launched the Designer from a terminal window and getting this error about missing encodings module. THis is r33743 (preview from July 8th). Last login: Fri Jul 25 14:27:38 on ttys004 The default i…

Thanks. I also figured there is a SlicerDesigner executable, which seems to work. For whatever reason on my Mac Designer executable located at /Users/amaga/Desktop/Slicer.app/Contents/bin/Designer.app/Contents/MacOS/Designer is registered as the default application to open .ui files… I wasn’t abl…

Designer failing to launch on MacOS

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muratmaga (Murat Maga) July 25, 2025, 9:52pm 2

Some error pops up with 5.8.1 as well.

Latest slicer preview (r33816) does not launch in macos

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Designer failing to launch on MacOS

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