alice-teacher Alice and Catalina (Mac OS 10.15)

[Don Slater]

Everyone,
I have tested Alice 2 And Alice 3 and Catalina and this is what I found.

Alice 3 seems to run without any problems.

The first time I ran Alice 2 it hung up. But after I restarted the machine, Alice 2 was able to run. But I found on my machine that the File Open directory no longer allowed me to navigate through my computer’s file system to locate and open Alice projects. 

I believe that this has to do with Catalina’s increased security measures, and that there is a preference setting that will eventually correct this. We are still tracking down exactly what that setting will be.

I found double-clicking on any Alice 2 project file from the Finder of the computer will open the project in Alice 2. If this does not work the first time, you may have to right-click (Control-click) the project and select the Open With option. After you identify Alice 2 as the app associated with the file, the system should remember that .a2w files are opened with Alice 2.

We will be interested in hearing what anyone else havs found, or of any other issues you have identified.

We will keep you posted.

Thank you, and all the best,
Don Slater

Alice Project