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Subl cannot find Sublime Text on OSX

#1

I’ve been using Sublime Text via the subl command for years, but today it has suddenly stopped working. I’m on OS X El Capitan, 10.11.6. Nothing obvious has changed - I haven’t upgraded ST or OS X. Running subl now gives me the error “Unable to find Sublime Text”. Google only turns up results discussing this problem when using sudo, which I am not. Running /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl produces the same error message.

I’m running ST stable, build 3114.

Any ideas how to diagnose this further?

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#2

I noticed that typing subl . at the command line was just transferring control to an already-open window.

I realised that I’d rebooted, and macOS automaticaly restored the Sublime windows. So I shut down all the Sublime windows that were open (I force-closed them since both 2 that were open were just note windows that I hadn’t explicitly saved anywhere). Then I issued subl . to work on a project and it seemed to come back normally.

This was after the latest macOS security update (10.11.6 15G31), and AFAIK this hadn’t happened before.

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#3

For whatever reason, this seems to have sorted itself out after restarting my computer.

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