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chromedriver, MacOS 'chromedriver cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified' #21

Closed shawngraham closed 1 year ago

shawngraham commented 2 years ago

I've installed etudier on a new machine, macos catalina, in a python 3.8 environment. Running etudier, I get the standard Mac pop-up warning 'chromedriver' cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified'. To get around this, I find this thread on stackoverflow - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60362018/macos-catalinav-10-15-3-error-chromedriver-cannot-be-opened-because-the-de

which suggests,

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine $(which chromedriver)

Even then, still had trouble; had to brew reinstall chromedriver, and then did the xattr again; after this, etudier ran as expected.

I'm mentioning all this here in case someone else runs into this.

edsu commented 1 year ago

Thanks yes, this is tedious but unavoidable I think. I opened the folder containing the chromedriver executable and ctrl-clicked on chromedriver then selected 'open'.