Notes for Mac users (including Catalina / Big Sur security settings)

[Paula]

On macOS Catalina, the first time you try to run alphaMELTS 2 it may fail due to new security settings. Go to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy->General tab and select "Allow anyway", and then try again.

On Mac, if you double-click easyMelts it will open in your home space, and the output files will be written there. This can be confusing as by default the user's "home" directory is not displayed in Finder. You can add it by going to Finder Preferences and clicking the check box next to the house icon, which will have your username next to it. Alternatively, open the Terminal program, navigate to the folder easyMelts is in and type "./easyMelts" (this is the method recommended in the easyMelts README).

New (June 2021): easyMelts can be started from Finder on macOS by double-clicking easyMelts.command (not easyMelts) and output files will go to the folder where easyMelts and easyMelts.command are located.

Remember to move all the .tbl files out of the folder between easyMelts runs. Otherwise, if the phase assemblage differs between run 1 and run 2, melts.out and all the .tbl files for phases in run 2 will be overwritten but any other .tbl files from run 1 will still be hanging around. If you use the Combine tbl function from MELTS for Excel you will get a mixture of results from both runs.