[macOS][ARM] “FedoraMediaWriter” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should eject the disk image.

[osalbahr]

Attempting to open FedoraMediaWriter-osx-arm64-5.1.3.dmg results in the following error message:

“FedoraMediaWriter” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should eject the disk image.

This item is on the disk image “FedoraMediaWriter-osx-arm64-5.1.3.dmg”. Firefox downloaded this disk image today at 6:55 PM.

• This seems to be related to https://github.com/FedoraQt/MediaWriter/issues/678

[grulja]

Yes, it's the same issue. This happens, because the FMW macOS build is not signed.

[consult-kk]

So it is effectively useless ?? I mean , is there a workaround /. fix .. rather than "This happens because.. blah blah " ???

[wonderITea]

same issue here

[osalbahr]

So it is effectively useless ?? I mean , is there a workaround /. fix .. rather than "This happens because.. blah blah " ???

@consult-kk the workaround is in the linked issue: xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine FedoraMediaWriter.app.

Here is how I adapted the workaround for my workflow:

brew install fedora-media-writer
xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/FedoraMediaWriter.app

And now you should be able to open the app as normal.

[osalbahr]

You can also

brew install --no-quarantine fedora-media-writer

• See https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/17979#issuecomment-2273062456

[anotherk1nd]

I don't want to use brew...

[osalbahr]

@anotherk1nd you can directly use xattr.