I have experienced an identical problem. I was getting familiar with Ekos on 1st March - 2nd March Stars crashed on startup. I found this discussion and followed the suggestions and deleted files from my (user) application support and preference folders. When I tried to start Kstars I did not get the dialogue and it crashed when it was on "URLs". I have found an unsatisfactory workaround, I have created a new user and kstars seems to run on that (at the moment) but I have not had much chance to see how robust it is.

It does seem to suggest that something has been left behind when I deleted the files.

Also, when I tried to re-download I got nothing from Safari and Chrome just said that the page does not work. I used the old disc image which I had in a back up.

I would like to get back to using Kstars/Ekos on my main user account (I also have a separate "Administrator" account for security.

Thanks,

JH

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