Focus Point Plug In

[isle54]

On focus point plug in I get this

 I get this on every image I am using latest LR Classic and MacBook Pro with Catalina any ideas on why it doesnt display image either DNG, CR2 or CR3

[JohanElzenga]

This plugin could be partially 32 bits, which means it can't run on MacOS Catalina.

-Moved to the Lightroom Classic forum-

[isle54]

What do you mean 32 bit?

[Ian Lyons]

In addition to the suggestion by Johan, it would likley be more beneficial to contact the plugin in vendor.

[Conrad_C]

You should definitely contact the plug-in author, because the tighter security restrictions in macOS 10.15 Catalina have interfered with or blocked some plug-ins for other Mac software, for example, Photoshop. If that is the problem with this Lightroom plug-in, the developer might need to release a version that has been properly "notarized" for Catalina.

[isle54]

I contacted the app developer 6 days ago and have not heard a thing, oh well

[John R Ellis]

I confirmed that the Show Focus Points plugin uses a third-party utility "mogrify" that is 32-bit:

$ file FocusPoints.lrplugin/bin/imMac/mogrify 
FocusPoints.lrplugin/bin/imMac/mogrify: Mach-O universal binary with 1 architecture: [i386:Mach-O executable i386]
FocusPoints.lrplugin/bin/imMac/mogrify (for architecture i386):	Mach-O executable i386

 32-bit programs aren't supported by Mac OS 10.15 (Catalina), so you'll definitely have to contact the plugin developer for a new version with a 64-bit version of "mogrify".

(Older programs with 32-bit addressing can use only the first 2^32 = 4 billion bytes of memory. Newer programs have 64-bit addressing and can use much, much more memory -- 2^64 = 10^19 bytes.  Prior to Mac OS 10.15, you could run both 32- and 64-bit programs on Mac OS. But with 10.15, you can only run 64-bit programs.  This isn't a security restriction per se but rather Apple deciding to save engineering costs by phasing out older technology.)

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[John R Ellis]

"I contacted the app developer 6 days ago and have not heard a thing, oh well"

The plugin hasn't been updated in 2.5 years.

You could probably fix this bug yourself, with a small amount of effort, by updating the "mogrify" utility to the latest version. I haven't tested this, so there may be gotchas:

1. Install Mac Ports: https://www.macports.org/install.php

2. In Terminal, do this command:

sudo port install imagemagick

3. In Terminal, do this command:

cp `which mogrify` FocusPoints.lrplugin/bin/imMac/mogrify

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