[GNC] macOS Sonoma "Gnucash is damaged and can’t be opened" error

[Vincent Lucarelli]

Hi,

I upgraded an Intel Mac to macOS Sonoma and downloaded Gnucash 5.4.  When I tried to run it, I got the error "Gnucash is damaged and can’t be opened.”

In previous OS versions, there was an error about untrusted developer and in System Settings you could approve running the application. System Settings has been reorganized and I could not find anywhere to approve Gnucash.

In the terminal, I ran

  xattr -rds com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Gnucash.app

and then has to launch Gnucash twice for it to finally run.

Vince