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Nuke and OSX Lion do not WORK

I finished film school 2 years ago, and have been ever since admiring the Great Product of The Foundry, such as Nuke, Mari, Furnace and so on.

So after saving for over a year, i finally got enough money together to purchase a brand New Mac Book Pro as well as a Copy of Nuke.

We all are aware how much the Mac's cost, but for Nuke i payed around 5000 USD, this is the most expensive software i have ever bought.

Now all excited like a child i went and installed it, as i am about to launch it, it crashed on me. I restarted, reinstalled etc but it keeps crashing.

I contacted The Foundry get a refund issued, you know what they told me?

BAD LUCK!!!

WTF, this is so wrong! I spend all my saving on their stupid (okay awesome) software and it does not work!

BEWARE NUKE DOES NOT WORK WITH OSX LION!

i Agree (47) | Oh Suck it Up (23)

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User Comments (18)

tribultik

Aug 12, 2012 7:05 pm Detail View
tribultik said: Otherwise just upgrade at least at v6.3.4 Works like a charm on Lion.

mokoko

Apr 10, 2012 7:59 am Detail View
mokoko said: Ben, You are the man.

asi

Jan 30, 2012 7:06 pm Detail View
asi said: How weird. I have Nuke 5.2v1 and that works fine on a Lion system. I was considering upgrading to 6.3v2 as that is what my uni is running on, and they offered an awesome deal (£150 for 12 months) but I'll save the money if if is unusable.

Ben

Sep 8, 2011 3:19 am Detail View
Ben said: Or if you are bash-challenged, just go to the nuke directory, right click on Nuke, show package contents, navigate to contents > MacOs > plugins > template.nk

open this file in any text editor, empty it's content and save the file.

This did the trick for me.

Sep 17, 11:03 am
daveg replied to Ben : works!

Jul 3, 7:48 am
User17555 replied to Ben : WORK for me too. thanks a million!!!

Aug 6, 11:15 am
Keitto replied to Ben : Works!! NukeX6.2v6 on trial mode

mimo

Aug 25, 2011 11:53 am Detail View
mimo said: having the same problem with nuke 632 here :(

User13020

Aug 25, 2011 10:34 am Detail View
User13020 said: Allegedly NUKE6.2 32bit DOES WORK WITH OSX LION，but i can't find the nuke6.2 32bit for osx download.

steve

Aug 22, 2011 7:00 am Detail View
steve said: here's a tip. Do some research before you spend any money. It's well known, that Nuke does not work on Lion. It clearly states it on the "Software Requirements" page.

xztreem

Aug 20, 2011 6:13 pm Detail View
xztreem said: Doesn't work anyway for me.

But I think I know what you above me are doing wrong. First of all you should write :wq! When you are saving and exiting a file, doesn't have to be in sudo mode for that. The other thing you're not doing right is that you standing in your profile folder while you're calling to start the application, but the file is meant to be called from the root map. An easy solution to that is just to put two jump backs in the beginning, so change it to

nuke63='./../../Applications/Nuke6.3v2/Nuke6.3v2.app/Contents/MacOS/Nuke6.3v2 --nukex'

and see if it works better. When all is done, shut down the terminal and restart it again, then write nuke63 from the place in the terminal where you will end up when starting it.

Best of luck,
regards Simon.

bros

Aug 19, 2011 7:00 am Detail View
bros said: 8. type :wq thez say recording but the terminal doesn't close

you have to type ":wq" not "wq" ;)

foul

Aug 14, 2011 11:12 pm Detail View
foul said: Well, the next time you spend thousands of dollars on a piece of software check to see if it runs on a major upgrade of your OS before you upgrade. Serves you right.