Minecraft won't open for no apparent reason [closed]

I recently downloaded Minecraft on a new computer (a Mac OSX) and it was working for a week until, all the sudden, Opening the game just immediately exits and a pop-up comes up and says

Minecraft Lancher quit unexpectedly

Clicking "Report to Apple" is just says this

Process: launcher [621]
Path: /Applications/
Identifier: com.mojang.intdev.minecraftlauncher
Version: 1235 (1)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [148]
User ID: 502
Date/Time: 2017-02-21 18:11:35.773 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.8.5 (12F2560)
Report Version: 10
Interval Since Last Report: 230750 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 120
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 32 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 22
Anonymous UUID: 650BF36B-C0E6-3BE4-8640-EE89B352963B
Crashed Thread: 0 CrBrowserMain Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000040

(I couldn't fit the rest)

I've tried everything,

• Installing java, (Its up to date)
• Installing OpenGL, (Which apparently, has no download for Macs)
• reinstalling the game.

2

1 Answer

Just download the old minecraft launcher at

At the title screen it should say that java is outdated and that you will need to install java 8 even though you have Java 8 installed. Do not listen to this for now. I am also running the exact same version of macOS 10.8.5

The same thing happened to me. I think it was my antivirus that screwed the new minecraft launcher.