Not able to start Affinity Designer v1.10.5 on Mac

[AlexFizeau]

Hi.

I was using Affinity Designer on a MacBook Pro with Intel i9 Processor and Sonoma OS v14.1.

Since a while, I am not able to start it. Here is a snippet of a error details:

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Translated Report (Full Report Below)
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Process:               Affinity Designer [3597]
Path:                  /Applications/Affinity Designer.app/Contents/MacOS/Affinity Designer
Identifier:            com.seriflabs.affinitydesigner
Version:               1.10.5 (1.10.15)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        launchd [1]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2023-12-24 09:27:46.7250 +0100
OS Version:            macOS 14.1 (23B74)
Report Version:        12
Bridge OS Version:     8.1 (21P1069)
Anonymous UUID:        A3D6B6D3-A372-971F-D23F-1B25234D3566

Time Awake Since Boot: 2600 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Termination Reason:    Namespace SIGNAL, Code 6 Abort trap: 6
Terminating Process:   Affinity Designer [3597]

Application Specific Information:
abort() called

Thread 0 Crashed::  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                0x7ff8028cb7ce __pthread_kill + 10
1   libsystem_pthread.dylib               0x7ff802903f30 pthread_kill + 262
2   libsystem_c.dylib                     0x7ff802822a49 abort + 126
3   libc++abi.dylib                       0x7ff8028bcc72 abort_message + 241
4   libc++abi.dylib                       0x7ff8028aee1a demangling_terminate_handler() + 266
5   libobjc.A.dylib                       0x7ff80254f36e _objc_terminate() + 96
6   libc++abi.dylib                       0x7ff8028bc0cb std::__terminate(void (*)()) + 6
7   libc++abi.dylib                       0x7ff8028bc086 std::terminate() + 54
8   libdispatch.dylib                     0x7ff80275c5ae _dispatch_client_callout + 28
9   libdispatch.dylib                     0x7ff80275d7cb _dispatch_once_callout + 20
10  libcocoaui                               0x102c92bad +[SchemeManager GetInstance] + 93
11  libcocoaui                               0x102a9cd03 -[Application initialiseBackend] + 3171
12  libcocoaui                               0x102400bd2 -[ApplicationDelegate applicationWillFinishLaunching:] + 178
13  CoreFoundation                        0x7ff8029d4800 __CFNOTIFICATIONCENTER_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER__ + 137
14  CoreFoundation                        0x7ff802a65336 ___CFXRegistrationPost_block_invoke + 88
15  CoreFoundation                        0x7ff802a65280 _CFXRegistrationPost + 532
16  CoreFoundation                        0x7ff8029a46fb _CFXNotificationPost + 682
17  Foundation                            0x7ff80392422e -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 82
18  AppKit                                0x7ff805fdf067 -[NSApplication finishLaunching] + 269
19  AppKit                                0x7ff805fdec99 -[NSApplication run] + 250
20  AppKit                                0x7ff805fb2e10 NSApplicationMain + 816
21  dyld                                  0x7ff80257b3a6 start + 1942

[loukash]

The fix is pretty simple: update to the latest version 1.10.8