Arduino 1.5.1 won't work on a Mac

Development Tools IDE 1.x
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Title says it all, when launched there is an error box saying:-

Uncaught exception in main method:
java.lang.illegalStateException: Menu has no enabled items

Googling arround shows some related Linux problems and talks of a missing platform.txt file. I have found two of these and both seem OK.

Anyone got an answer to this?

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Haven't tried 1.5+ on my MBP yet. I'll try it later, when I'm on the machine. Which version of the OS are you running?

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Which version of the OS are you running?

10.6.8

Arduino 1.5.0 runs fine

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Just downloaded 1.5.1r2 on my 10.7.5 machine, and it ran ok. Uploaded some sketches to an Uno, but I don't have a Due. In case it makes a difference, java -version reports:

java version "1.6.0_37"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_37-b06-434-11M3909)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.12-b01-434, mixed mode)
5

I had similar issues. Apparently a "hardware" folder in your sketches folder (may be) the reason for this.

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Thanks Nick, that appears to have done it. The hardware folder contained a attiny45_85 folder. I just moved it out of the sketches folder and now it will run.
Any ( publishable ) suggestions of what to do with the folder?

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I'm kind of hoping they will fix the problem in the next release.

Meanwhile I'm using the 1.0.x releases.

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Well to be fair, the 1.5.x branch isn't actually "released" yet.