Cognition not launching on Mac 10.8.2

[GameFred]

Purchased Cognition season 1. Downloaded the huge ZIP file to my iMac (which meets all the system requirements). Ran BetterZip to verify that the .zip file was not damaged. It wasn't. Unpacked the ZIP file and ended up with a folder called "CognitionGoldMacBuildv2"  Inside is "Cognition Episode 1.app" but with a generic application icon, rather than anything that looks like a Cognition-specific icon. Double clicked "Cognition Episode 1.app" within that file. The icon animation expands, but no icon ever appears in the doc and the app does not launch.

Any ideas? I just bought the $30 version and really would like it to work!

[wilco64256]

Yeah the icon is just generic, one of those things we didn't quite have time for. Another user reported having this same issue and was able to fix it with a CHMOD for the app:

chmod 755 Cognition\ -\ Episode\ 1.app/Contents/MacOS/Cognition\ -\ Episode\ 1

I'm not entirely sure why that would be necessary as I know a number of folks have been able to run it just fine (I've downloaded it separately to my own Mac and run it several times to test it without any issues) so it's kind of an odd random thing coming up. It may be something coming from the 10.8.2 update, I'm going to keep trying to replicate it to see if I can hunt down a cause and fix it.

[GameFred]

The CHMOD did the trick! Yay! Can't wait to run the program once I'm back from Thanksgiving. (It's considered poor form, I gather, to play games at the dinner table).

Before doing the CHMOD I did an LS -L and noticed that the prior permissions had been 700.

Random factors:
- I tried using The Unarchiver and the native Archive Utility to unzip the file before trying BetterZip. Both of these programs crashed or hung when trying to unzip the archive (maybe because of its size?)
- since the file was created by BetterZip, maybe BetterZip itself set that permission for some reason

All the best!