{"id":4147,"date":"2020-01-07T01:04:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T09:04:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-02-28T14:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T22:26:14","slug":"4147","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/4147","title":{"rendered":"When I try to run Logger Pro on my Mac, it re-installs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is likely caused by rerunning the installer instead of launching the app. It is important that you run the Logger <em>Pro<\/em> application itself, not the installer (likely in your downloads folder). On a Mac, applications live in the &#8220;Applications&#8221; folder. <\/p>\n<p><strong>To launch Logger <i>Pro<\/i> from the Applications folder, follow these steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to the Finder by clicking the Finder icon in the Dock.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"\/files\/til\/images\/4147-Finder.jpg\" alt=\"4147-Finder.jpg\"><\/li>\n<li>Click &#8220;Applications&#8221; in a Finder window.<\/li>\n<li>Open the Logger <em>Pro<\/em> 3 folder in Applications.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"\/files\/til\/images\/4147-applications folder.jpg\" alt=\"4147-applications folder.jpg\"><\/li>\n<li>Launch the Logger <i>Pro<\/i> program by double-clicking on the application icon.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"\/files\/til\/images\/4147-LP Icon.jpg\" alt=\"4147-LP Icon.jpg\"><\/li>\n<li>Once you have successfully launched Logger <i>Pro<\/i>, be sure to &#8216;Eject&#8217; the Logger <i>Pro<\/i> installer from your Desktop (or downloads folder).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>For easy access to Logger <em>Pro<\/em> you can add it to your dock. To do this, follow these steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>While Logger <em>Pro<\/em> is running, Control+Click its icon in the Dock.<\/li>\n<li>From the pop-up menu, select &#8220;Options&#8221;, &#8220;Keep in Dock&#8221;<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"\/files\/til\/images\/4147-keep in dock.jpg\" alt=\"4147-keep in dock.jpg\"><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Related Links<\/strong><br \/>\u25cf <a href=\"\/til\/2089\/\">Logger <i>Pro<\/i> Troubleshooting and FAQs<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is likely caused by rerunning the installer instead of launching the app. It is important that you run the Logger Pro application itself, not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6974,85,2785,97,66,6409,6975],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-dock","tag-download","tag-icon","tag-install","tag-mac","tag-macos","tag-shortcut"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}