# 7.5.3 and OSX **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [October 28, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/7-5-3-and-osx/5340 "2012-10-28T18:01:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![craigb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@craigb](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/craigb)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/7-5-3-and-osx/5340/1 "2012-10-28T18:01:04Z")
I have 7.5.3 running on a remote machine, which I can access locally and remotely using a windows 7 laptop. When ever I try to connect via my mac running Java 7 it fails to load. When i click open project, the Java 7 loading box pops up in the centre of the screen and it just stays there for how ever long I let it, until i close java. Any Ideas? I tried to install Java 6 but not sure how to for OSX. Im running OS X 10.8.2. Many Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Greg.Buehler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@Greg.Buehler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Greg.Buehler)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/7-5-3-and-osx/5340/2 "2012-10-29T14:27:36Z")
Try deleting the directory at ~/.ignition to clear all the cache files. ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/7-5-3-and-osx/5340/3 "2012-10-29T15:11:40Z")
Java 7u9 on OS X broke webstart. The work-around until Oracle releases a fix is to uninstall Java 7 and revert to the Apple-supplied Java 6. Instructions on doing so are here: [java.com/en/download/help/ma … l\_java.xml](http://www.java.com/en/download/help/mac_uninstall_java.xml) [support.apple.com/kb/HT5559](http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5559) Sorry for the inconvenience. ---
**Author:** ![craigb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@craigb](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/craigb)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/7-5-3-and-osx/5340/4 "2012-10-29T22:55:29Z")
Its no problem, I knew it would be an easy fix 🙂 Java 6 is now re enabled but I turned off my remote machine as I had no need to access it today, I will test tomorrow and fingers crossed all is now working 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/7-5-3-and-osx/5340/5 "2012-10-29T22:59:39Z")
If that doesn’t work, uninstallling Java 7 and the installing Java 7u7 (and then ignoring the prompts to upgrade to 7u9!!!) also works. ---
**Author:** ![james.joy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/97f17d/32.png) [@james.joy](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/james.joy)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2012, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/7-5-3-and-osx/5340/6 "2012-11-01T14:31:54Z")
I had the same problem. I got it to work by uninstalling 7u9 and installing 7u7 like Kevin suggested, but I had to run this command to re-enable webstart afterward: sudo ln -sf /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Commands/javaws /usr/bin/javaws After that, all was good! ---
**Author:** ![James.Lorenz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/james.lorenz/32/3290_2.png) [@James.Lorenz](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/James.Lorenz)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/7-5-3-and-osx/5340/7 "2012-11-02T17:49:13Z")
Thanks for the help james.joy, we’ll take note of that.