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[Jake <jake@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm running kicad (2014-05-31 BZR 4902)-product on MacOS from a build I 
downloaded and i'm having a serious problem.

It's been working fine for a while, i have made boards and done some work 
with it.  But i was never able to create a new project, either blank or 
from a template.  It always said "Error:  Can't find kicad.pro" or 
something like that.  (Sorry, it doesn't allow me to copy text from the 
error dialog for some reason, although i can highlight the text)

but today I was asking on IRC where i'm supposed to find or put kicad.pro 
on the mac, and to describe the error i tried again to make a new project 
and it gave me the error "Info    Project template file <kicad.pro> not 
found."

and then i quit kicad thinking nothing had changed.  But now, if i try to 
open kicad, it just says "Error Unable to find kicad.pro template config 
file." and clicking OK just repeats the error.  If you hold down the enter 
key, it clicks OK 30 times a second.  Forever.

all the menus are greyed out, there's no option to quit or open a 
different project or anything.  I have to force-quit kicad from the 
operating system (command-option-escape) which is like kill -9

help!  i have no idea what to do, or what config file got changed or what.

help?

-jake