it is impossible to load the sia wallet on mac.
Sorry to hear that you are having troubles. Can you explain what's not working? While OS X has a few known issues, most people have been able to load the sia wallet.
1. download
2.unzip
3.open darwin folder
4. open Sia
5. Message from OSX "The application "Sia" cant be opened.
for some reason it will not open at all.
I am really not sure what the issue might be, nobody else so far has reported that problem. Are you using the trial 0.4.0 that we distributed in the slack, or are you using 0.3.3.3?
I've also tried the 0.4.0 preview for Linux (the one you got people to download through the sia client in the slack).
Issues:
When I get onto the Wallet tab, I get a "error 404 Not Found 404 - Refer to api.md" message
If I try to click the "create address" button, I get a "error 400 Bad Request unrecognised method when calling /wallet/address" message
Wallet status says "locked". If I try to click on the lock icon to unlock it, it prompts me for a password. Of course anything I enter is a "Wrong password" - I never set one in the first place.
hmm, I wonder why that is. That's not what happens for me. It means that the UI is making requests which aren't available on the API. But it also means that you're talking to the right port and everything...
The very first time you started the wallet, it gave you a password. If you just closed the window without reading it, then you'll have to delete your wallet and start over . The wallet is in Sia/app/dependencies/Sia/wallet/wallet.json
We should probably have the encryption process be more transparent, so that people don't miss this step. You aren't the only one who closed the window without writing down the password. For the time being, you don't actually set a password, it's just given to you. Most people do not pick secure passwords and a lot of Bitcoins have been stolen that way. As the project matures, we'll provide more options for picking passwords.