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

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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!

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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.

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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.