It doesn't work in High Sierra about spaces-renamer HOT 20 CLOSED

@aminta @annabechang @dado3212
I had the same problem on OSX 10.12.6.
I found the problem, and two possible solutions:

Problem: Clicking "Update Names" within the Spaces Renamer had no effect.
Cause: I had an outdated version of mySIMBL (0.2.5) and it would not let me update to a newer version during the install update process.
@dado3212 I had an downloaded outdated version because you linked it in your README.
I'd advice you to replace the link in your Readme with the latest SIMBL download.

(@dado3212 : And yes, ~/Library/Containers/com.alexbeals.spacesrename existed on my computer)

Solution:
1. (not recommended, only if 2. doesn't work)
Changing the ownership of mySIMBL.app to the root user:
Open Terminal and type: cd /Applications && sudo chown -Rv root mySIMBL.app
Now clicking "Update Names" within Spaces Renamer had an effect for me.

2. (better)
Update mySIMBL by directly going here
https://github.com/w0lfschild/mySIMBL/releases/latest
Download & install it. Then Spaces Renamer will also work properly.

And remember to disable System Integrity Check first:
Restart the Mac with holding CMD+R to open the Recovery Setup. Open Terminal from the Menu bar and type csrutil disable. Then restart.

@dado3212, thanks very much for this wonderful plugin!

Best,
Florian

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I got it to work following the instructions from FlorianLiebhart.

What did it for me was disabling SIP by rebooting into recovery mode before installing mySIMBL, then following the installation instructions for spaces renamer.

Now I can rename my spaces :)

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Did you use this on a lower version and it worked? I'm running High Sierra 10.13.3, and it's working fine. I suppose it's possible that something changed. Are other SIMBL tweaks working?

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No, I've installed it directly in High Sierra following your instructions and I'm not using other SIMBL tweaks...

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Can you try and install another SIMBL tweak and confirm that it's a problem with Spaces Renamer, and not with your SIMBL installation?

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Ok, wich one? I have no practice of SIMBL... Thanks!

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Any of w0lfschild's should work, you can find some in the 'Discover' tab of mySIMBL. Also, make sure you're on the most updated version (the 'About' tab in mySIMBL). It should be 0.7.1 right now.

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I've tried some other tweaks, like biniventory, and they work! But Spaces Renamer doesn't :-( I'm on mySIMBL 0.7.1 and I'm running Spaces Renamer 1.4.1.

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Updated to High Sierra 10.13.5, same problem...

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Hi, thank you for such a great program. I am having the same issue as @aminta. I have the program running, I named them and clicked update names, but the names of my multi-screens are still the same.

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I'm running High Sierra 10.13.5, and it's working correctly. @aminta and @annabechang can you let me know if ~/Library/Containers/com.alexbeals.spacesrenamer exists on your computer? And if not, can you create it?

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@FlorianLiebhart Thanks! I caught that I was linking to an older version in the release instructions, but I forgot I had a link in the README as well. Good catch! I've also run into an error once where it wasn't working, but started working again after running killall -9 Dock again from Terminal, so try that as another option.

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Sadly, this doesn't work for me no matter what I try (as per recommendations above). Edit: On macOS 10.13.5

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Doesn't seem to work no matter what in 10.13.5

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Will post in other issue but also wanted to say I'm in Mojave beta and the above didn't work for me.

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It doesn't work for me either:
MacOS 10.13.6 (17G65)
mySIMBL 0.7.1
tried rebooting and killing Dock, can't get the spaces to rename.

I've also tried a few other tweaks from mySIMBL and none of them work:
w0lfschild/mySIMBL#88
if I install rename-spaces via mySIMBL discover menu I can't even get it to launch.

Any help/ideas?

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I'm running other SIMBL tweaks too and followed the above instructions as best I could ^. Some have commented that they're able to get it to work and others not. Would like to know if I'm missing anything to make this work, or it's just not working on later versions of High Sierra and now Mojave.

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I'm on 10.13.6 now, and it's still working for me. Not sure how to replicate it :/

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I confirm that is working for me also on 10.13.6, thanks!

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Closing! For anyone else who comes across this issue, make sure that you've disable SIP (csrutil disable while in Recovery mode), and that you're running the most recent version (and that the app is set to start on login!)

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