# Autopsy giving an error and won't run on macOS version 10.15.7
**URL:** https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/t/autopsy-giving-an-error-and-wont-run-on-macos-version-10-15-7/2285
**Category:** Autopsy on Linux / macOS
**Created:** [November 10, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/t/autopsy-giving-an-error-and-wont-run-on-macos-version-10-15-7/2285 "2020-11-10T23:02:58Z")
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### Author:  [@23280743](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/u/23280743)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/t/autopsy-giving-an-error-and-wont-run-on-macos-version-10-15-7/2285/1 "2020-11-10T23:02:59Z")
I have the 2019 MacBook Pro and it is running macOS Catalina version 10.15.7
When I run Autopsy in Terminal bin/autopsy
it gives out this error message:
> org.netbeans.InvalidException: StandardModule:org.sleuthkit.autopsy.core jarFile: /Users/t/Desktop/autopsy-4.16.0/autopsy/modules/org-sleuthkit-autopsy-core.jar: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
The options is to exit or disable modules and continue
So when I clicked on disable modules and continue, it opens Autopsy but its empty and I can’t do anything like create a new case etc
The instruction says to uninstall any third party java installations… so when I run brew cask list, the only two installations are Liberica-jdk8-full and android-sdk… I can’t uninstall android-sdk as I need it to work on other assignments
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### Author:  [@John\_Lehr](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/u/John_Lehr)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/t/autopsy-giving-an-error-and-wont-run-on-macos-version-10-15-7/2285/2 "2020-11-12T16:19:27Z")
That condition is often a sign that you tried to run Autopsy before you had it properly installed. Delete the Autopsy support folder and try again:
```auto
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/autopsy
```
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### Author:  [@23280743](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/u/23280743)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2020, 9:25pm UTC](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/t/autopsy-giving-an-error-and-wont-run-on-macos-version-10-15-7/2285/3 "2020-11-12T21:25:21Z")
> [@John\_Lehr](#):
>
> `rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/autopsy`
I ran that in the autopsy folder and it still gives me an error
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### Author:  [@John\_Lehr](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/u/John_Lehr)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2020, 9:53pm UTC](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/t/autopsy-giving-an-error-and-wont-run-on-macos-version-10-15-7/2285/4 "2020-11-12T21:53:02Z")
I recommend, then, that you carefully work through this guide:
[https://slo-sleuth.github.io/tools/InstallingAutopsyOnMacOS.html](https://slo-sleuth.github.io/tools/InstallingAutopsyOnMacOS.html)
I updated it recently when I installed Sleuthkit 4.16 on macOS 11. Don’t assume you have already done a step, just start afresh.
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### Author:  [@23280743](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/u/23280743)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/t/autopsy-giving-an-error-and-wont-run-on-macos-version-10-15-7/2285/5 "2020-11-12T22:22:38Z")
yeah, that’s what I used to download it in the first place. think its best for me to see if I can download it on linux or windows as I keep getting the same errors… but thank you
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### Author:  [@swissflyer12](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/u/swissflyer12)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2020, 9:03pm UTC](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/t/autopsy-giving-an-error-and-wont-run-on-macos-version-10-15-7/2285/6 "2020-11-20T21:03:42Z")
I am receiving the same error on my mac. Did you happen to ever find a solution?
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### Author:  [@hfisicaro](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/u/hfisicaro)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2022, 5:42pm UTC](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/t/autopsy-giving-an-error-and-wont-run-on-macos-version-10-15-7/2285/7 "2022-07-18T17:42:11Z")
I have the same problem running macOS Monterey.