Open wordwill opened 11 months ago
I'm on windows and am getting the same message - seems trustworthy but i'm also wary of letting it go through anyways
my understanding is that mac flags anything not delivered through the mac app store as unverified, as apple attempts to own the ability to sell software directly over the internet.
We've never been verified but if you open the app while holding down Option, it'll ask you if you want to open it instead of saying that you can't, and after accepting the warning goes away. (Obviously, that's up to you, but this is the correct inky repo.)
Not sure why it would happen on Windows, unless Windows have started adding an equivalent check?
my understanding is that mac flags anything not delivered through the mac app store as unverified
that's not exactly true. with a paid apple developer account you can notarize your application and distribute it outside of the App Store:
https://www.swiftdevjournal.com/how-to-notarize-a-mac-app/
Windows has an equivalent optional process for 'code signing'.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/252226/signing-a-windows-exe-file
Right. But the mac signing process is dreadful.
Also running into this issue.
if you open the app while holding down Option
This doesn't appear to work. Also following the official instructions doesn't appear to work either. Attempted to open dozens of times, still receiving two options: "Move to Trash" and "Cancel".
Mac Pro M1 2020 Ventura, Version 13.4 (22F66)
Also running into this problem
it does work for others; perhaps you have a security setting marked as "never open unsigned apps" somewhere?
Flipping the option to open this unsigned app never became an option for me, at least through the Mac OS settings. I did however find a solution: from this blog post, using the spctl
command in the terminal:
sudo spctl --master-disable
sudo spctl --master-enable
to reset the setting.I can't confirm this doesn't have side effects, but has worked for me so far.
@liebscher Works for me, thank you very much!
Hello! Recently, Mac OS started flagging this app as being from an unverified developer, which makes me wary of using it. What's changed? (I used it earlier this year with no trouble, so I hope this has a simple fix?) I'm looking forward to honing my Ink skills again! Thanks for your time.