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Installed Qt 4.7.4 on the Mac but can't find the IDE editor: qtcreator?

I have installed Qt5.1 on the Mac and it was easy to find the IDE editor: qtcreator. Infact you could click on a project pro file and it would come up. I removed Qt5.1 and installed Qt4.7.4. But I can't find the editor qtcreator? I can find qmake, example applications that were built... But I can't even click on a project pro file to get qtcreator to come up.

Solution

  • If you've installed using the Qt binary installer you should have a folder in /Users/(your-username)/Qt, ordinarily the Qt Creator.app exists in there. OS X is potentially linking the .pro file extension to a version of Qt Creator that no longer exists, so it's not set with the version installed as the main handler.

    Other ways to find Qt Creator:

    • Try searching for it in Spotlight if you have it setup to index your drive
    • Search from Terminal with something like sudo find / | grep "Qt Creator.app"