Processing won't launch, Mac

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I’m attempting to run processing 3.5.3 on MacOS 10.14.3. When I click on the processing icon, Processing appears in the mac menu bar for moment, and then disappears. The splash screen never comes up. These are the errors I’m getting in my console.log. Any thoughts?

error 11:08:26.099657 -0500 Finder Unable to load Info.plist exceptions (eGPUOverrides)
error 11:08:26.288388 -0500 Processing Unable to load Info.plist exceptions (eGPUOverrides)
error 11:08:26.289336 -0500 WindowServer SLXServer: Unexpected notification msg received: id is 65
error 11:08:28.231489 -0500 cfprefsd rejecting write of key _DKThrottledActivityLast_DKKnowledgeStorageLogging_DKKnowledgeStorageDidInsertEventsNotification:/app/usageActivityDate in { com.apple.contextstored, root, kCFPreferencesAnyHost, no container, managed: 0 } from process 184 because setting preferences outside an application’s container requires user-preference-write or file-write-data sandbox access
error 11:08:28.231633 -0500 contextstored Couldn’t write value for key _DKThrottledActivityLast_DKKnowledgeStorageLogging_DKKnowledgeStorageDidInsertEventsNotification:/app/usageActivityDate in CFPrefsPlistSource<0x7fd253e03510> (Domain: com.apple.contextstored, User: kCFPreferencesCurrentUser, ByHost: No, Container: (null), Contents Need Refresh: Yes): setting preferences outside an application’s container requires user-preference-write or file-write-data sandbox access
error 11:08:28.232380 -0500 cfprefsd rejecting write of key _DKThrottledActivityLast_DKKnowledgeStorageLogging_DKKnowledgeStorageDidInsertLocalEventsNotification:/app/usageActivityDate in { com.apple.contextstored, root, kCFPreferencesAnyHost, no container, managed: 0 } from process 184 because setting preferences outside an application’s container requires user-preference-write or file-write-data sandbox access
error 11:08:28.232550 -0500 contextstored Couldn’t write value for key _DKThrottledActivityLast_DKKnowledgeStorageLogging_DKKnowledgeStorageDidInsertLocalEventsNotification:/app/usageActivityDate in CFPrefsPlistSource<0x7fd253e03510> (Domain: com.apple.contextstored, User: kCFPreferencesCurrentUser, ByHost: No, Container: (null), Contents Need Refresh: Yes): setting preferences outside an application’s container requires user-preference-write or file-write-data sandbox access
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Searching for that error message:

…it looks like perhaps a Mohave bug, and updating to the latest beta worked for someone two days ago. Maybe try that?

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On a whim, I tried installing Java 8. I know it’s not required for Processing, but that was the magic. I’m wondering if that might have handled a permissions issue. Anywho, thanks.

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That is pretty darn mysterious – I thought that PDE uses its own Java internally, so changing the system Java shouldn’t affect it at all. You might want to report on this to Processing issues – in case others have similar problems.