Tor Browser won't launch anymore on Mac - help!

Looking for some help here.
Have been using Tor Browser on Mac (Catalina) for the past 2-3 years without any problems. But suddenly it stopped launching all together for some reason. So I restarted the computer, but still won’t launch. Did a proper Uninstall and Reinstall. Still nothing, won’t launch. Tried launching it via Terminal (brew services start tor) and here I got the following error:

Error: /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-services/cmd/services.rb:154: syntax error, unexpected ')'
...wait: args.no_wait?, max_wait:)
...                              ^
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-services/cmd/services.rb:155: dynamic constant assignment
...rvice::Commands::Kill::TRIGGERS
...^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-services/cmd/services.rb:155: syntax error, unexpected '\n', expecting '='
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb:92:in `require'
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb:92:in `require?'
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/commands.rb:72:in `external_ruby_v2_cmd_path'
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:128:in `<main>'

ave tried looking everywhere on the net to solve this, but without any luck.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Hi!
I think your problem is related to this bug: TB 14.0.5 doesn't work for MacOS users with older OS versions (#43468) · Issues · The Tor Project / Applications / Tor Browser · GitLab

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I think it is after all. Thanks for the insight.

We are investigating and tracking this bug affecting macOS users on our bug tracker, TB 14.0.5 doesn't work for MacOS users with older OS versions (#43468) · Issues · The Tor Project / Applications / Tor Browser · GitLab, and working on a fix.
In the meantime, please downgrade to Tor Browser 14.0.4:

  1. Uninstall the current installation of Tor Browser
  • Locate your Tor Browser application. The default location is the Applications folder.
  • Move the Tor Browser application to Trash.
  • Go to your ~/Library/Application Support/ folder.
  • Note the Library folder is hidden on newer versions of macOS. To navigate to this folder in Finder, select “Go to Folder…” in the “Go” menu.
  • Go to folder menu option. Then type ~/Library/Application Support/ in the window and click Go.
  • Go to folder window. Locate the TorBrowser-Data folder and move it to Trash.
  • Empty your Trash.

Note that if you did not install Tor Browser in the default location (the Applications folder), then the TorBrowser-Data folder is not located in the ~/Library/Application Support/ folder, but in the same folder where you installed Tor Browser.

  1. Download and install Tor Browser 14.0.4
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Thanks for the info, ebenam. Very helpful! Cheers.