For starters, go ahead and uninstall and delete any previous SPSS have. Download the 29.0.1 version linked in the licensing email you received. Go ahead and install that. License that as an Authorized version using the code provided
Next grab the .pkg file attached to this article. Then try the following:
- Install the .pkg from this article.
- Open application folder, you should find two folders: one is your SPSS application (yours should be called IBM SPSS Statistics 29), and the other is the folder containing the fixer (it should be named IBM SPSS Statistics).
- Open the second folder. You'll find an application named 'SPSS Statistics' with no icon.
- Right-click on that file and select 'Show package contents.'
- A new folder, 'Contents,' will open.
- Inside 'Contents,' open the 'lib' folder, where you'll find the file 'libplatdep.dylib.' Keep this folder opened.
- Open the application folder, go to the folder with the SPSS application (yours should still be called IBM SPSS Statistics 29), and open it.
- Right-click on the 'SPSS Statistics' app.
- Select 'Show package contents.'
- Open the 'Contents' folder and then open the 'lib' folder.
- Move here the file 'libplatdep.dylib'
- You will be asked if you want to replace the existing file; click 'Replace.'
- Then close all the folders.
- Go to application folder and delete only the folder with the fixer.
- Run SPSS, and everything should be okay!