After fresh install of League of Legends on macOS with case-sensitive APFS volume it's not possible to start League of Legends game, after champion selection the launcher won't open the game client and is stuck with reconnect button.
Terminal method is probably more reliable as you can see real file names within terminal opposite to Finder which 'beautifies' them so you can't be sure what the actual file name is. Run app from command line macos.
Note that League patcher will probably install updates under old filename so it's possible that these steps will need to be taken after every patch until Riot fixes it.
With your League of Legends client open, does the top righthand corner of the Blitz app indicate the following? If not: Open your Blitz settings, the gear icon in the top right corner, and check if your League game directory is setup correctly, if not enter your correct League path. My app won't update properly. Please let us know via the. If you are just talking about in game, an easy way to switch between not full screen and full screen is to hit alt + enter. If you're talking about the client itself then you're wrong and should feel wrong. Okay, so you have to delete every file on your computer that has to do with League of Legends. You then download League of Legends AGAIN from a different pla.
Terminal.app
- Open
Terminal.app
from Applications - Browse to League contents with
cd /Applications/League of Legends.app/Contents/LoL/RADS/solutions/lol_game_client_sln/releases/
- At this point you need to list this directory's content to find most recent release number with
ls
- Navigate to release's content:
cd 0.0.1.49/deploy/
. Replace release with the one from step 3 - Run
mv LeagueofLegends.app LeagueOfLegends.app
Finder
- Open Finder
- Press Cmd+Shift+G
- Type
/Applications/League of Legends.app/Contents/LoL/RADS/solutions/lol_game_client_sln/releases/
- Open directory with most recent release
- Open
deploy
directory - Right click
League Of Legends
and choose Rename - Remove all spaces from the name so it looks like
LeagueOfLegends
and press Return - As mentioned before, Finder doesn't display file's real name so after renaming it will still display the old name. However, real file name should be changed
Turns out it's an issue with Apple's new APFS file system which changes handling of some filenames.Looking into client logs we can find:
This hints that launcher simply cannot find client's app.Few lines above this one we can see what path launcher is looking for:
The problem lies with client app in
deploy
directory. Taking a look at deploy
contest after fresh install on APFS volume we'll find 'LeagueofLegends.app'. However, launcher looks for 'LeagueOfLegends.app'.My League App Won't Open Mac Pro
Simply renaming app fixes the issue. https://brownru659.weebly.com/mac-reset-default-app.html.