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KevinH · 06-20-2025, 03:33 PM

@philja

Okay I looked through the entire CI build and just like DiapDealer said, there were no issues.

So I snuck into my wife's office and borrowed her MacBook Air (which is an arm64) and downloaded the Beta2 build from my github personal repo.

Then I dragged it out of the Downloads folder to her Desktop:

Then in Terminal.app I did the following:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine Sigil.app-2.6.0-Beta-2-Mac-arm64.tar.xz

which I always do with trusted software (since I built it!)

Then double-clicked on it to let Archive unpack it.

I was able to then Double-Click on the resulting Sigil application and it launched just fine (after telling Apple it was okay to open).

And it all worked for me.

So I am not sure why you are seeing what you are seeing? Do you by chance have some strange MacOS anti-virus software running?

06-20-2025, 03:33 PM	#26
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 8,893 Karma: 6120478 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	@philja Okay I looked through the entire CI build and just like DiapDealer said, there were no issues. So I snuck into my wife's office and borrowed her MacBook Air (which is an arm64) and downloaded the Beta2 build from my github personal repo. Then I dragged it out of the Downloads folder to her Desktop: Then in Terminal.app I did the following: xattr -d com.apple.quarantine Sigil.app-2.6.0-Beta-2-Mac-arm64.tar.xz which I always do with trusted software (since I built it!) Then double-clicked on it to let Archive unpack it. I was able to then Double-Click on the resulting Sigil application and it launched just fine (after telling Apple it was okay to open). And it all worked for me. So I am not sure why you are seeing what you are seeing? Do you by chance have some strange MacOS anti-virus software running?