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How to fix Paw HTTP Client not opening a window on macOS

How to fix Paw HTTP / RapidAPI Client not opening a window on macOS

Patrik Simms

• 1 min read

Paw (nowdays called RapidAPI) is a pretty advanced HTTP client for macOS. It combines the features of Postman and Insomnia into a native Platform App (so no electron 🎉) which looks & feels like Apple would have developed it (in the good and the bad parts..).

I had the issue that out of the blue Paw did not open a window anymore, so it was not beeing usable. Restarting the app & the mac did not help. I found no known bugs or ways to fix this, thats why I put my fix here:

  1. Close Paw & Open your finder
  2. Navigate to your user home folder
  3. Show hidden folders (cmd + shift + .)
  4. Go To Library -> Containers -> RapidAPI
  5. Delete the "Data" Folder. This will delete the caches for PAW
  6. Reopen Paw. You should see a window where you can again select a project, like on your first startup. You might need to login again
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Delete this folder
Initial Startup window for Paw

Done. Everything should work as before 🎉