I am a new user of PyCharm, but have years of experience with MacOS, python and similar. My set up is MacBook Pro M1, 32GB ram, MacOS Sequoia 15.2, and PyCharm Pro latest.
Path to projects leads to an external SSD via usb-c. I have set up some projects, each using python 3.12 in a venv.
The projects work for a while then “lose” a module (module not found). I have gone through every troubleshooting method the built-in AI and web search have come up with.
The first module to disappear is docx2txt. I created a new project and it worked, for a couple of days then the error returned. The docx2txt module could not be found working within or outside of PyCharm. In site-packages there is no “docx2txt” folder, only an “info” folder containing WHEEL and its companions.
For the most recent disappearance, I noticed the package used distutils. I cloned the docx2txt project from GitHub and updated setup.py to use setup tools instead of distutils, and installed it. Python invoked from the command line can import it, but not from PyCharm. When I run the project from PyCharm, the interpreter cannot find dotenv.
I have lost days of work time at this point so I am a bit worried. Advice on what to look at and for would be great.
mophilly
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MacBook Pro M1 with an external monitor.
For years, the external as Main and the built-in monitor was Extended.
After 14.5 update, when a specific user logs on, the built-in monitor "disappears" from Displays and the two monitors show the same desktop. That is as if the external monitor is the only one.
If the monitor cable is unplugged, the MacBook boots normally. Plugging in the external monitor following normal boot results in the external becoming Main and built-in Extended.
I suspect some launch item install with an app is affecting the display config. I first removed zoom, but no change. There are about 110 apps installed on this machine.
How to determine which module or app is doing this? That is, is there a tool or log setting that would note a change in the display settings? I would like to narrow the likely candidates.