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Mac apps cannot have hyphens in their name?

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I have built a simple Electron app using Menubar and after packaging it (using electron-packager@5.1.0) when I run it on OSX, it gives error:

The application "NAME.app" can't be opened.

The app works fine when I build and run it locally using electron . Also when I try running it from inside the .app file it works as well.

node: 5.11.0 npm: 3.8.6 menubar: 4.1.0 electron-packager: 5.1.0 electron: 1.0.1 plaform: osx 10.11.4 build command: ./node_modules/.bin/electron-packager ./ --platform darwin --arch all

How can I investigate the cause of this issue?

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:11 (4 by maintainers)

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davidfergusoncommented, May 15, 2016

I think that both @mashhoodr and I had the same issue as #323. It says that a fix is having the executable in a different location fixes this issue, so renaming the executable (like I did) and also renaming the .app (like @mashhoodr did) would fix the issue. Therefore I don’t actually think this issue is any different to #323, and doesn’t have anything to do with hyphens in the name.

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mashhoodrcommented, May 15, 2016

I can confirm that simply renaming the app also fixes the issue, and it does have the hyphen still. Thanks for the heads up @davidferguson