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Mac OS Sierra solution

If you have a problem with Genney in MacOS Sierra, try one or both of the following actions.

Restart your computer after you perform the actions.

Reinstall Genney

  1. Download the latest version of Genney.
  2. Open Finder and go to "Program".
  3. Ctrl+click on Genney and select "Move to trash" or drag Genney from programs folder to the bin.
  4. In Finder, go to "Downloads", ctrl+click and select "Open".
  5. Install by follow the instructions.

Add computor name to hosts file

  1. Open Finder and in menu select Go > Go to folder and type /etc/hosts and press Go and Finder will open the folder containing hosts file.
  2. Drag the file hosts to your desktop to be able to edit it.
  3. Double click the file which will open in the text editor.
  4. Open system preferences from the apple and select "Sharing". Below the box where you change the computer name, the name is written where it ends with xxx.local. Copy that name.
  5. Go back to the text editor and on a new line in the file, add the lines below where you replace "computer name" with the one you copied from system preferences and which ends with .local as shown in the image.
    127.0.0.1 localhost computor name
    ::1 localhost computor name 
  6. Save the file and drag it back to the original folder. Accept the questions.