Installation issue with MacOS Intel Version

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#1

Hi there:

I have a Mac running MacOS 12.7.6 on an Intel chipset. System has 16GB RAM and 500GB storage.

The problem that I am running into, installing the Intel version of Mailspring is as follows:

Error: dlopen(…better_sqlite3.node): incompatible architecture (have (arm64), need (x86_64))

I have removed the app completely using AppCleaner twice and re-downloaded the app, with the same result. So I am not sure what to do at this stage.

If anyone has any advise, or has run into this problem and solved it, I would really appreciate your feedback.

Thanks so much.
-Michael

#2

Has happened before (search for the part of the error which starts with ‘incompatible’

Previous recommendation was to downgrade to previous version. Just exploring how to do that now

#3

Hi @anitagraham. Please let me know if you are successful and thanks for your input :slight_smile:

#4

So, I followed this thread and installed. The installation has worked and is noted that there was an upgrade from 1.15.0 to 1.16.0-5399a49f which I did and it has arrived back at exactly the same error message.
“Error: dlopen(/Applications/Mailspring.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/Release/better_sqlite3.node, 0x0001): tried: ‘/Applications/Mailspring.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar.unpacked/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/Release/better_sqlite3.node’ (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have (arm64), need (x86_64)))”

So I have Forced Quit and uninstalled using AppCleaner again. I would like to try the app again at some point, but I can’t use it if it is going to break and need to roll back to the previous version when that happens. I would have to check for feedback on the new version before upgrading. That makes things a little tricky…? It seems like a lightweight and useful product.