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

[Vincent Lucarelli]

Hi Richard,

I’m running Gnucash on an older Mac that has an Intel processor.  I haven’t upgraded my M1 laptop to Sonoma yet, but I can try downloading and launch Gnucash on it when I do upgrade to see if I see the same behavior.

Vince

> On Oct 11, 2023, at 11:08 AM, R Losey <rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 9:11 PM Vincent Lucarelli <vincent.lucarelli at gmail.com <mailto: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
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>>   xattr -rds com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Gnucash.app
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>> and then has to launch Gnucash twice for it to finally run.
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> 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?
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> I've never had any problems running GnuCash on my M1 iMac, but I'm still running Ventura.
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