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I see what you mean now. Thanks for your patience. I'll give this a try, but I suppose from what you've said above it might not work. I'll see what files it tries to find and then see whether I can move them into the data folder. If that fails I may need to see if I can get my old laptop PC working ...

I'm not quite sure what you want me to do differently. I tried doing the same as above but instead of the last two lines I just typed the final line. Again nothing happened. Was that what you were proposing? If not could you please be a bit more specific, thanks. I should have explained above that t...

I've now got home and tried this out. No joy. I opened a terminal window and pasted in the exact location of the Celestia.exe file followed by "--conf": /Users/xinyiwang/Desktop/Celestia.app/Contents/MacOS/Celestia --conf And pressed enter. This opened Celestia, and produced a response in ...

The directory I specified above definitely is the one where Celestia.exe is located on my Mac. Catwrings helpfully advised me above on where to find it on a Mac, and they were spot on. That is where it's located on my Mac. I didn't include the ".exe" file ending in the example above, but I...

Sorry maybe I didn't make it clear enough in that last post that I was asking another question. Can anyone spot anything wrong with the way I entered that command? I'm not used to using Unix so it's quite possible I've just go the grammar wrong.

Very grateful if someone could help.

I see what you mean. I've tried cd'ing to that directory but when I run the command it still doesn't accept it. Can you see what I'm doing wrong? XINYIs-iMac:~ xinyiwang$ cd /Users/xinyiwang/Desktop/Celestia.app/Contents/MacOS XINYIs-iMac:MacOS xinyiwang$ XINYIs-iMac:MacOS xinyiwang$ celestia --conf...

No joy I'm afraid. I've tried it with and without capitalisation: XINYIs-iMac:~ xinyiwang$ cd XINYIs-iMac:~ xinyiwang$ cd /Users/xinyiwang/Desktop/Celestia.app/Contents/Resources/CelestiaResources/extras-standard XINYIs-iMac:extras-standard xinyiwang$ celestia --conf Activity6-161.cfg -bash: celesti...

Thanks again Selden I'm trying to enter those commands into a terminal window but it keeps saying "No such file or directory". I've just started reading through the guidance on Unix that you helpfully shared. Meanwhile I'll show you what I tried entering so you can correct it if you see th...

Many thanks for the prompt and informative reply Selden. I'm still fairly new to Mac. I've just looked up the Wikihow article on how to open a terminal window. That should be fine. How do I "cd" to the directory where I installed Celestia? What does "cd" stand for? Going to try t...

I've managed to use Celestia successfully on my Apple Mac. Hugely impressed. I've even been able to download updates. It's amazing how easy it is to update this piece of software. However I can't run activities. I've downloaded Activity 6 "The Life and Death of Stars". Extracted the zip fi...