External Tool "issues" and high difficulty to use

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Aaah :bulb:. Learn something new every day they say… :wink:

This seems to be a security feature of OSX. When a program is started normally, meaning by double clicking the application or calling it via Spotlight, the PATH variable is cleared out by OSX.

However, if you start KNIME from a terminal, you can make it inherit the full environment like so:

  • navigate into your KNIME application’s Contents/MacOS folder with the terminal, from your output above this seems to be /Applications/KNIME.app/Contents/MacOS
  • run ./knime
  • try any of the solutions provided here :slight_smile:

I tried it by running the env command using my Python script and via the terminal I did get my full PATH variable.

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