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

[R Losey]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 9:11 PM Vincent Lucarelli <
vincent.lucarelli at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>


I thought that  for an M1 or M2 Mac, you need to have the Rosetta app to
allow Intel-based applications to run (such as GnuCash). Do you have that
installed?

I've never had any problems running GnuCash on my M1 iMac, but I'm still
running Ventura.

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