ViewNX 2 Nikon software doesn't work with OS X El Capitan

Thanks GameFundas. This really helped.

If it wasn't clear from his message, we have to run and install mpkg as well as pkg. When I just ran mpkg, I did not have proper menu items, but when I ran the pkg file, it showed all and proper menu items.

Thanks a ton.

Same here. I started from a fresh install of El Capitan and tried to install View NX2 but its stuck at the "Additional Installation" step

I have been testing the beta version of el Capitan and have not found any problems with nikon software as of yet.

Same here.

i have the same issue, tied installing ViewNX 2 and it got jammed like AVEngineer said.

davefromwolrverton wrote:

I have been testing the beta version of el Capitan and have not found any problems with nikon software as of yet.

The problem seems to be the installation, not actually running the software.

I had the nikon software installed and working fine (for 6 months) until the El Capitan upgrade, it opens up just no images available to be viewed, despite there being 1250 Jpegs on the SD card.

I tried reinstalling the software via CD and it jambs?

Nikon told me the same in e-mail, so we have to wait or go back to OS X Yosemite or... try Adobe Lightroom 5.5., it works o.k.

Bad thing that Nikon waited that long before updating her software.

It is actually the operation of the software also. I've tried copying the software from my working Mavericks install to my El Capitan install and it crashed within 5 seconds or so. Mind you there maybe other portions of the software installed within Mavericks I'm not ware of so this maybe the source of the crashing.

Software not working are:

-ViewNX 2

-ViewNX-i

-CaptureNX-D

All install programs hang at same point of the process.

On odd occassions of incompatibilities with OSX software installs, Pacifist comes to the rescue. Perform a custom install by exploding the package contents.

Please see screenshot below for an example with Nikon Transfer

Did get a strange warning through, but I see that the tool works. Haven't tried the other programs but I am assuming they should work.

Hopefully it works for people suffering from this.

Well, after spending a bit more time between my Mavericks system and my El Capitan system, I finally have been able to get ViewNX-i and CaptureNX-D working in El Capitan. ViewNX-i is Nikon's newer supported version of ViewNX 2 and has replaced it as such.

In order to get these to work in El Capitan I made sure they were working in Mavericks and then proceeded to copy the Nikon folder inside 'Applications' on Mavericks and then placed it into the 'Applications' folder on El Capitan. The next step I needed to do was copy the Nikon folder located in 'Library/Application Support' on Mavericks and place it into the 'Library/Application Support' folder on El Capitan.

That is as easy as it gets. After doing this I tried loading ViewNX-i in El Capitan and it loaded fine and worked without a problem. I then tried CaptureNX-D and it also worked fine. So they work fine once they are resident in the system properly. I'm sure ViewNX 2 will probably work doing the same thing but I am using ViewNX-i now so I won't try it.

The problem with installing the Nikon software with Nikon's installer is the installer itself. I'm sure it has to do with Apple redesigning EL Capitan's USB support. Nikon needs to redesign the installer to work with El Capitan, but for now this is a work around.

Hope everyone can follow this so you can carry on using El Capitan with Nikon software.

For installation capture nx2 just disable sip.

I have the same problem. Right after I installed El Capitan, Nikon stopped working. I tried to reinstall the software, but could not.

I used time machine to get my old program back. So, now I have an old program that does not work.

Think I will reinstall the prior operating system over EC.

Tried with View-NX i & 2. Both worked using the same method.