# ProfileView not loading MacOS

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/profileview-not-loading-macos/57970>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** profile\
**Created:** [March 25, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/profileview-not-loading-macos/57970 "2021-03-25T21:18:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![weymouth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/weymouth/32/15839_2.png) [@weymouth](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/weymouth)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/profileview-not-loading-macos/57970/1 "2021-03-25T21:18:03Z")

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Unfortunately, I can’t seem to get the ProfileView.view() GUI to load on MacOS. I didn’t have any problems adding or precompiling the package. Profile works. The GUI window pops up, but it stays completely blank and I get a long message which I can’t parse. It works fine on Windows.

Any tips?

```julia
julia> ProfileView.view()
Gtk.GtkWindowLeaf(name="", parent, width-request=-1, height-request=-1, visible=TRUE, sensitive=TRUE, app-paintable=FALSE, can-focus=FALSE, has-focus=FALSE, is-focus=FALSE, focus-on-click=TRUE, can-default=FALSE, has-default=FALSE, receives-default=FALSE, composite-child=FALSE, style, events=0, no-show-all=FALSE, has-tooltip=FALSE, tooltip-markup=NULL, tooltip-text=NULL, window, opacity=1.000000, double-buffered, halign=GTK_ALIGN_FILL, valign=GTK_ALIGN_FILL, margin-left, margin-right, margin-start=0, margin-end=0, margin-top=0, margin-bottom=0, margin=0, hexpand=FALSE, vexpand=FALSE, hexpand-set=FALSE, vexpand-set=FALSE, expand=FALSE, scale-factor=1, border-width=0, resize-mode, child, type=GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL, title="Profile", role=NULL, resizable=TRUE, modal=FALSE, window-position=GTK_WIN_POS_NONE, default-width=800, default-height=600, destroy-with-parent=FALSE, hide-titlebar-when-maximized=FALSE, icon, icon-name=NULL, screen, type-hint=GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_NORMAL, skip-taskbar-hint=FALSE, skip-pager-hint=FALSE, urgency-hint=FALSE, accept-focus=TRUE, focus-on-map=TRUE, decorated=TRUE, deletable=TRUE, gravity=GDK_GRAVITY_NORTH_WEST, transient-for, attached-to, has-resize-grip, resize-grip-visible, application, is-active=FALSE, has-toplevel-focus=FALSE, startup-id, mnemonics-visible=FALSE, focus-visible=FALSE, is-maximized=FALSE)

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**Author:** ![helgee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/helgee/32/2022_2.png) [@helgee](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/helgee)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 9:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/profileview-not-loading-macos/57970/2 "2021-03-25T21:26:17Z")

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> [@weymouth](#):
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> `ProfileView.view()`

Can’t reproduce the issue on Julia 1.6.0 with ProfileView v0.6.9. What versions are you on?

While this doesn’t fix your issue, [PProf.jl](https://github.com/JuliaPerf/PProf.jl) is an awesome alternative and has completely replaced ProfileView for me.

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**Author:** ![weymouth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/weymouth/32/15839_2.png) [@weymouth](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/weymouth)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 10:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/profileview-not-loading-macos/57970/3 "2021-03-25T22:11:07Z")

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> [@helgee](#):
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> Can’t reproduce the issue on Julia 1.6.0 with ProfileView v0.6.9. What versions are you on?

Same here. I also tried Julia 1.5. No dice.

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**Author:** ![carstenbauer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/carstenbauer/32/4981_2.png) [@carstenbauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/carstenbauer)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2021, 10:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/profileview-not-loading-macos/57970/4 "2021-03-25T22:28:35Z")

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Works fine for me as well (on macOS 11.2.3). I also see a long message, but the window pops up and shows the expected content.

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**Author:** ![helgee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/helgee/32/2022_2.png) [@helgee](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/helgee)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 6:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/profileview-not-loading-macos/57970/5 "2021-03-26T06:37:18Z")

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Could you post the message you are receiving, @weymouth?

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**Author:** ![weymouth](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/weymouth/32/15839_2.png) [@weymouth](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/weymouth)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2021, 6:40am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/profileview-not-loading-macos/57970/6 "2021-03-26T06:40:35Z")

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It is in the original post.