Help please, PixInsight completely completely broken on MacOS

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bobtobb avatar
Hi. Desperately looking for advice. First off - I would post on the PixInsight forums but can't since the validation email to unlock posting ability is never sent. And I have used the web form but don't get answers. So I wonder if any of you know what is wrong, or perhaps could cross post in the official PixInsight forums for help?

I've used Pixinsight a lot on a Macbook M1 Pro with 64Gb RAM 4TB HDD. No isssues. Yesterday simple process interactions stopped working. See attached Screenshot 2024-12-05 at 09.15.18.png where I can no longer drag the STF process onto Curves area. 

I have reinstalled PixInsight (several times, including manually removing the directory in /Applications. I have rebooted the computer. I have removed all settings from ~Library. I have started PixInsight from the Terminal to see if there are any logs anywhere (there are none). I have validates that PixInsight has full access in Systen Preferences / Privacy and Security.
There are no warnings or messages in the process logs.

Still no go. I'm completely at a loss here and when googling I can't find any similar error (except one about a similar problem with GHS which is waved away by the devs).

Help?
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Ferran Bosch avatar
Hello, if you have an old email, try to get a new one, it does not accept .hotmail or servers like that.
As for the errors, try reinstalling again or start by resetting, I don't know how it is in Mac, in Windows it is ctrl+start.
Roy Hagen avatar
I haven’ t  tried to use the STF  with the Curves Transformation tool, but does the Screen Transfer Function work with the Histogram Transformation tool?
The message tells me the STF is not supposed to be used with Curves Transformation.

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Jonny Bravo avatar
That screenshot doesn't show any issue other than you trying to drag STF onto CurvesTransformation. The error it gives back is exactly what it is supposed to do: tell you that Curves doesn't support STF.
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bobtobb avatar
oh my god I'm stupid. Yes, of course it was user error.
I knew I should use HistogramTransformation but somehow my brain has been attempting Curves for the last couple of days. Gaaah!

Thank you!
Jonny Bravo avatar
oh my god I'm stupid. Yes, of course it was user error.
I knew I should use HistogramTransformation but somehow my brain has been attempting Curves for the last couple of days. Gaaah!

Thank you!

LOL we've all been there