recoll: Files won't open

[johnpi (John)]

With the default settings, after searching for some keyword, if I click "Open" in in the results list (a PDF document result) I get a dialog with the error message "The viewer specified in mimeview for application/pdf: evince is not found. Do you want to start the preferences dialog ?"

If I click on the "Preview" I get a dialog with error message "Error loading the document: no permission. Attempting to display from stored text." and once I click OK I see the window with the extracted text.

If I get to the preferences and change the viewer for application/pdf from the default "evince --page-index=%p --find=%s %f" to "open %f" clicking "Open" gives another error message "Can't access file: /Users/user/subdirectory/filename.pdf". If I click "Preview" I still get the previous behaviour.

Now it gets interesting. If instead of running recoll by clicking the icon I run it from a Terminal ($ recoll) both "Open" and "Preview" work as expected.

Any suggestions? Seems to be something related to permissions? I have not customised the installation path of macports or anything.

Thanks