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X-Plane 10 installed, but now OS X complains it's a PowerPC application

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asked by (13 points)
I installed X-Plane 10 yesterday from the latest installer. When I try to run it (either X-Plane.app or X-Plane-32bit.app), OS X gives this error:

You can't open the application "X-Plane.app" because PowerPC applications are no longer supported.

What's going on? This worked fine on my other computer (2014 iMac 24"). This is on a 2015 MacBook Pro 15".

-Justin
commented by (13 points)
Mysteriously, it now works, but I did not change anything.

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answered by (594 points)

Hi there,

Note: X-Plane 10 does not support PowerPC-based Macs, or versions of OS X prior to 10.6.8.

-Rishi

commented by (13 points)
Of course it doesn't, which is why it's so strange that OS X is complaining that it is a PowerPC app and thus refuses to run it.
commented by (594 points)
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3984771?tstart=0

Here is some info I found for u. I'm not a MAC user anymore more of a Windows guy.

I honestly don't know what is going on.

Someone from laminar will respond to u in the next day
commented by (13 points)
Ok, thanks. Unfortunately that doesn't help me. I'm using 10.11.3 on both systems and they are essentially identical architectures. I have no idea why it would work on one and not the other. Perhaps I should blame anti-virus...
commented by (594 points)
Sorry about that. But keep checking back here because someone from Laminar will respond to you in a couple a hrs.

-Rishi
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