First post, so please be kind (and please excuse the overshare- I have no idea what might be important!) LOL
I am hoping that someone here might, please, be able to explain how I can check if a very basic app (that I have to use for work) is getting stuck loading because of a setting on my Mac, or maybe have a look at the program file itself and let me know if there is an obvious anomaly that would cause it to glitch with my MBP- like how a bunch of older apps aren't going to work with the Catalina etc (I am not a programmer or a developer- code quite literally makes my head spin LOL).
I work for a very small boat brokerage and I have a 2018/2019 MBP for work. Among other tasks, I put together contracts for people who use our services. Sometimes these are basic PDF's that I edit, filing in the buyer and seller details, but much of the time I have to use a BIMCO contract (under copyright, pay as you use etc).
This is what I am hoping someone might please be able to help with, because the contract editing process recently changed, and it is causing me all sorts of headaches!
Where we used to edit the docs using Citrix (the Mac add-on bit?), we are now using an MS Word based process where we download a template, mark it up and then upload it to the BIMCO site for 'processing' into a PDF.
The new contracts are protected/verified to an individual user ID (we needed to register with an online MS authenticator- I think it was Azure?, and part of the registration process was logging in with a Microsoft online account), and their editing permissions/capabilities are also severely restricted.
Anyway, in order to use this new system effectively, BIMCO has provided 'assistant' apps (one for Windows and eventually, one for Mac) to allow extended functionality, such as reversing changes made to the latest saved version of the Word doc contract.
These apps are the ONLY way to reverse a change- so it is a pretty important function to have, well, functional...
Anyway, after 6 months of no Mac app (literally, I was tearing my hair out) I was a tester for the beta version of the Mac app when it was released- and it was great! It is VERY basic, but it reversed my changes and stopped me from needing to continually re-write contracts (nope, they don't allow cut/copy and paste, either *sigh*), so I was happy.
Then, they fully released the Mac Assistant App as Version 1.01, and for some reason, it wouldn't fully load on my Mac- I could download the package, install the app, and open the app. But, then, it just sat in a holding pattern of 'loading...' which it never progressed past.
Version 1.02 was released and it still had the same issue for me, as did the latest version 1.03, which (I was assured by the tech ppl) SHOULD be fully functional... = work. It doesn't.
No one seems to know what is causing the program to get stuck loading and, being one of the only Mac users who use this system, there is not a great deal being put in to 'fixing' the problem.
I have tried-
I'm sorry if this is not the right place to ask this question, but I am at a complete loss! Feel like I'm going to need to break out the old Windows brick-top (laptop from 2008) to try and edit the contracts there- but that is literally the last thing that I want to do.
TIA for any ideas/suggestions/assistance
I am hoping that someone here might, please, be able to explain how I can check if a very basic app (that I have to use for work) is getting stuck loading because of a setting on my Mac, or maybe have a look at the program file itself and let me know if there is an obvious anomaly that would cause it to glitch with my MBP- like how a bunch of older apps aren't going to work with the Catalina etc (I am not a programmer or a developer- code quite literally makes my head spin LOL).
I work for a very small boat brokerage and I have a 2018/2019 MBP for work. Among other tasks, I put together contracts for people who use our services. Sometimes these are basic PDF's that I edit, filing in the buyer and seller details, but much of the time I have to use a BIMCO contract (under copyright, pay as you use etc).
This is what I am hoping someone might please be able to help with, because the contract editing process recently changed, and it is causing me all sorts of headaches!
Where we used to edit the docs using Citrix (the Mac add-on bit?), we are now using an MS Word based process where we download a template, mark it up and then upload it to the BIMCO site for 'processing' into a PDF.
The new contracts are protected/verified to an individual user ID (we needed to register with an online MS authenticator- I think it was Azure?, and part of the registration process was logging in with a Microsoft online account), and their editing permissions/capabilities are also severely restricted.
Anyway, in order to use this new system effectively, BIMCO has provided 'assistant' apps (one for Windows and eventually, one for Mac) to allow extended functionality, such as reversing changes made to the latest saved version of the Word doc contract.
These apps are the ONLY way to reverse a change- so it is a pretty important function to have, well, functional...
Anyway, after 6 months of no Mac app (literally, I was tearing my hair out) I was a tester for the beta version of the Mac app when it was released- and it was great! It is VERY basic, but it reversed my changes and stopped me from needing to continually re-write contracts (nope, they don't allow cut/copy and paste, either *sigh*), so I was happy.
Then, they fully released the Mac Assistant App as Version 1.01, and for some reason, it wouldn't fully load on my Mac- I could download the package, install the app, and open the app. But, then, it just sat in a holding pattern of 'loading...' which it never progressed past.
Version 1.02 was released and it still had the same issue for me, as did the latest version 1.03, which (I was assured by the tech ppl) SHOULD be fully functional... = work. It doesn't.
No one seems to know what is causing the program to get stuck loading and, being one of the only Mac users who use this system, there is not a great deal being put in to 'fixing' the problem.
I have tried-
- Looking at all of my security settings, to see if I was 'blocking' something (like if my privacy was set too high etc)
- Being connected via wi-fi (fixed wireless NBN is all Ive got, unfortunately)
- Being connected via mobile hot-spot (actually better signal and faster speed than the NBN)
- Opening the app while logged into the MS online account (contract docs/templates will still open and are still editable)
- Opening the app while logged out of the MS online account (contract docs/templates will still open and are still editable)
- Re-downloading and re-installing the App (three times for this version alone)
- Saving the download to my MBP, before installing
- Saving the download to my external hard drive, before installing
I'm sorry if this is not the right place to ask this question, but I am at a complete loss! Feel like I'm going to need to break out the old Windows brick-top (laptop from 2008) to try and edit the contracts there- but that is literally the last thing that I want to do.
TIA for any ideas/suggestions/assistance
