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Sublime Preferences Disabled on Mac OSX 10.8

#1

I’m just migrating to Sublime from TextMate on an Mac OSX 10.8 system and everything is working fine except the Sublime Preferences menu item is locked in disabled mode. Is this a OSX 10.8 issue or just me being a n00b?

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My preferences menu item is disabled
#2

I am using 10.8 and do not have that issue, so I assume it is not an issue with Mountain Lion. I am still a sublime text, so all I can suggest is fully removing the app and preference files (use an app like TrashMe, CleanApp or CleanMyMac), and reinstall.

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#3

This was fixed in 2.0.1, check that you’re using the latest version

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#4

I’ve done some more digging and found that with the initial install of Sublime 2.0.1, the Preference menu option works perfectly fine however if I install Package Control or manually load the TextMate Sass/Scss bundle ( github.com/kuroir/SCSS.tmbundle … blimeText2 ), after a restart of Sublime, Preferences is disabled.

After testing a number of scenarios, I’ve found that its probably not the packages. If I do a clean install of sublime ( 2.0.1 build 2217 or 2218 ), the Preference option works perfectly fine, but once I restart, its disabled. To fully vet the problem, I just tried the same scenario on my MacBook also running OSX 10.8 and had no problems, so it’s got to be a config issue on my iMac.

Any suggestion what to check?

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#5

This works on mine:
System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> General Tab -> Select Anywhere on Allow applications downloaded from option.

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#6

This may not be specific to OS X 10.8, I have the same problem with OS X 10.7.4

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