Minecraft worked fine yesterday with the old launcher but wont launch today with the new launcher that was 'surprised' onto me. Just stays stuck on 'preparing', rather have the old launcher back that worked!
What I expected to happen was...:
When I pressed Play for the launcher to launch the game/
What actually happened was...:
When I pressed Play the play button turned into a loading bar and displayed 'preparing' but never gets any further. (Its been 20 mins. or more now)
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start Launcher
2.Press play
Things I have Tried:
Restarting launcher
Restarting computer
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This details my problem exactly except that I am on Mac OS 10.11.6
Reinstalling the game didn't help either.
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We are also having this exact issue! We are on a Mac OS 10.11.6.
Have restarted the game, won't reinstall if JT says it didn't work.
If one of you find a solution, PLEASE post here? Or, email us at: [email protected]
SO frustrating...
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Ok guys! Something good just happened. We clicked out of/closed the stuck Minecraft main screen (looked just like Ricky's screenshot) and then clicked on the Minecraft icon to re-open it. Right away, a small box opened up in middle of screen and said something like 'updating Minecraft' and 'installing run-time'. Then, after about 45 seconds....voila'!! It's back up and running.
It appears that some type of update needed to occur.
All I can say is, keep trying to re-open it, to maybe get this update to initiate. I think that's what was/is causing our glitch.
galaxy_2alex
Duplicate of MCL-5646
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This is NOT resolved! And how can it be a duplicate of an issue that was created two days later! I am still having the problem and so are many others.
Is that all you guys do is just close reports claiming they are duplicates without ever actually resolving them? I made sure when I created my bug report there were none like it. And MINE gets closed when other people create duplicates instead of theirs? WTF
Can I at least get some answers!
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I am still having this same problem and am following the later report.
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I am having same problem and is really frustrating that can not find the fix in already opened problems. I won't open new problem when i find the same in already opened. But every link i followed didn't lead me to the solution. Question for the admins is... Can you just put f link to the solution of the problem without leading us to the duplicate problems which also did not resolved the problem.
galaxy_2alex
We would if there was a solution for the problem. However, there is none yet, hence this ticket is still open. Remember: This is a bug tracker, not a customer support service.
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You would think it would be easier/neater/more efficient to keep the first bug report posted and delete the duplicates. Instead of just constantly linking people to new bug reports which link to new bug reports. So everyone has to constantly follow this trail of links to the latest reported bug report rather then everyone (mod and user alike) just concentrating their efforts on ONE bug report. It seems like you guys are creating a lot more work for yourselves having to link all these reports together when it can be as simple as trying to resolve the original and just removing all others that duplicate it afterwards and linking them to the ONE report.
After restarting minecraft several times over the course of a few hours last night I did get it to finally load. Randomly on one of my many attempts it worked without a problem. It took several hours though and many attempts. By the time it did work I was heading to bed and just closed it out.
Trying again today I am having the same problem again... Just won't load and gets stuck on 'Preparing'... 😞 This is really annoying I can't play minecraft when I paid good money for it.