Hi Taraezor,
A picture of the menu dialog that you are describing would be great. Having a hard time understanding what was missing?
Shift - Command - 4 will allow you to take screen shots on OSX.
It should not matter where Minion is installed.
Can you attach a copy of your minion.xml and minion0.log? Open a terminal window and type the following:
A folder should open up with the files requested above. Just attach them here.
Those files will tell us what is happening on your system. Both the main java developer and myself run OSX 10.10 on MBP Retinas and don't have any issues at the moment.