I tried to download all the modules  for context and it worked perfectly. My only difference was that the modules had already been installed. I followed the wikipage  https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Input_and_compilation/Modules . I opened a terminal and cd into the tex folder. I then copied and pasted  mtxrun --script install-modules --install --all  from the wiki page into the terminal and hit return and is worked seamlessly, updating all of the files.
Here is the beginning of the output from the terminal of my mac mini M1.

(base) pothole@M1-mac-mini tex % mtxrun --script install-modules --install --all
mtx-install-modules | loading entries from file '/Users/pothole/data/contextmacosarm64/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/modules/third/mtx-install-imp-modules.lua'
mtx-install-modules | loading entries from file '/Users/pothole/data/contextmacosarm64/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/modules/third/mtx-install-imp-tikz.lua'
mtx-install-modules |
mtx-install-modules |
mtx-install-modules | removing 9 old files for 'https://modules.contextgarden.net/dl/t-account.zip'
mtx-install-modules |
mtx-install-modules | from 'https://modules.contextgarden.net/dl/t-account.zip'
mtx-install-modules | into 'texmf-modules'
   1 files of    9 done,      16063 bytes, 0.000 seconds
   2 files of    9 done,      17211 bytes, 0.001 seconds
   3 files of    9 done,      19887 bytes, 0.001 seconds
   4 files of    9 done,      21937 bytes, 0.001 seconds
   5 files of    9 done,      24571 bytes, 0.002 seconds
   6 files of    9 done,      26368 bytes, 0.002 seconds
   7 files of    9 done,      30636 bytes, 0.002 seconds
   8 files of    9 done,      31099 bytes, 0.002 seconds
   9 files of    9 done,     146609 bytes, 0.004 seconds
   9 files of    9 done,     146609 bytes, 0.004 seconds
mtx-install-modules |
mtx-install-modules | removing 6 old files for 'https://modules.contextgarden.net/dl/t-algorithmic.zip'
mtx-install-modules |
mtx-install-modules | from

I then  ran context --generate to update the database and all is fine.

Hope this helps
Best Wishes
Keith McKay

On 03/02/2025 15:39, Charles Doherty via ntg-context wrote:
Dear Hraban,

Thank you for the advice. I have been very careful and I cd to tex and and checked the syntax. When I typed the - - in macmail it automatically changed it to – but when I entered it in terminal it was right. However I get the same result 0C61CC4610D0FD8A2EBB2454500D59CBCD6936B85FC7841503E045662D0E737C.tma in the resulting modules folder.

Any further thoughts would be appreciated.
Charlie


On 3 Feb 2025, at 14:33, Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net> wrote:

Am 03.02.25 um 14:41 schrieb Charles Doherty via ntg-context:
Dear all,
I have installed ConTeXt standalone on a macbook pro Monterey OS 12.76 Intel machine (early 2015).
I downloaded X86 and after install I get a folder context-osx-64
used sh install.sh and everything seems to work fine with TeXShop.
I tried to download the modules using mtxrun --script install-modules -- install —all
I get a modules folder with files that are all like the first one below.
0C61CC4610D0FD8A2EBB2454500D59CBCD6936B85FC7841503E045662D0E737C.tma
I am obviously doing something silly or using the incorrect syntax.

The only obvious error I see is "-all" instead of "--all".

Did you call the command within the tex folder (below install.sh)? (If not, you should have seen an error message.)

Hraban
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