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To be clear, the “Allow applications downloaded from anywhere” option is hidden by Released
default in Gatekeeper for macOS from Sierra onward. You can see this by going to the
Security & Privacy preference panel, and under the “General” section you will not find such
an option for Gatekeeper app allow settings. Despite that, with a little command line
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1. Quit out of System Preferences
Mac
2. Open the Terminal app from the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and then enter the
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3. Hit return and authenticate with an admin password System Software

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4. Relaunch System Preferences and go to “Security & Privacy” and the “General” tab

5. You will now see the “Anywhere” option under ‘Allow apps downloaded from:’
Gatekeeper options

You’ll now be able to open and launch apps from anywhere under macOS Mojave, High
Sierra, and Sierra, but be forewarned this turns off Gatekeeper and is not recommended
for the vast majority of Mac users.

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Allowing apps from anywhere including unidentified developers can potentially leave a Mac
vulnerable to certain malware and junkware and should be avoided by all Mac users with
the exception of those with genuinely advanced abilities.

Another approach is to manually add Gatekeeper exceptions via the command line, a
solution which may be more appropriate than simply allowing everything to skirt past
Gatekeeper.

Returning to Default
Gatekeeper Security in macOS Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra
You can also reverse this and go back to the default strict Gatekeeper settings of only
allowing apps from the Mac App Store and identified developers by issuing the following
command string:

sudo spctl --master-enable

Hitting return and re-authenticating will return macOS Gatekeeper back to its strict default
state of disallowing random apps from launching.

Nearly every Mac user should leave this feature enabled in the default state. If you do not
have the ability to easily discern which apps are legitimate or not, you should absolutely
not change this option. The “app can’t be opened because it is from an unidentified
developer” message is there to offer protection to the vast majority of Mac users and
should not be ignored.

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drrjv says:
September 27, 2016 at 3:16 pm

You can also do the same by clicking control-click ‘open’

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junebeetle says:
September 27, 2016 at 4:12 pm

Yep, this is super useful. Control-click the app > Open. Click Open on the dialog
that appears.

I spent a couple years dragging


SketchyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/SketchyExecutable into Terminal before I
figured this one out.

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Dan says:
September 28, 2016 at 12:14 am

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And that’s a far better option. Having to specifically allow unidentified apps is
much safer than a open door.

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Chris Giordano says:


September 28, 2016 at 8:38 am

I totally agree. This would and should be the preferred method for any
proper Mac admin. Unlocking Gatekeeper completely should almost NEVER
happen, especially in an enterprise environment. It’s even a risk
recommending this to standard consumers as they really have no idea what
they are doing and what the repercussions are by completely unlocking it.
Chances are they won’t ever take the time to go back and lock it back
down.

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HJ says:
September 30, 2016 at 10:40 am

I’ve performed the disable command but still get the “can’t be opened”
message. Even if I control click. Any suggestions?

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Joseph B. says:
October 29, 2016 at 6:06 pm

Thank you so much! It works! I thought I was done for and I would of had to
delete most of my apps!

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Michael says:
December 28, 2016 at 3:10 am

thx alot
really help

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Michael Kulyk says:


February 13, 2017 at 4:39 am

thx very much !

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iyohmamma says:
February 24, 2017 at 1:20 pm

Yes, saw this method on other and did not work…..YOU INFORMED ME TO
CLOSE “System Preferences” first. Great works. Thanks.

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Narain S. says:

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March 22, 2017 at 3:50 pm

O Yes.. It did! Perfect.. Thanks!

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Mona says:
September 18, 2017 at 7:56 pm

Very helpful and easy tip.

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Keith says:
April 15, 2018 at 8:04 pm

It won’t let me enter my password

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Paul says:
April 16, 2018 at 8:00 am

All Terminal and command line interfaces have a security feature where it
looks as if you are not entering your password, but in fact you are. Here is
more info about this security feature:

http://osxdaily.com/2015/02/04/terminal-wont-show-password-when-
typed/

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smuseby says:
October 26, 2018 at 1:25 pm

With the installation of Mojave, starting Excel, which looks for the “Personal
Macro Workbook”, generates the error, “Alert. Sorry, we couldn’t find Personal
Macro Workbook…”. I have enabled the ‘anywhere’ option in System
Preferences.
Since the workbook is not an app (although it contains macros), is there another
security setting that might solve this issue?

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Scott says:
January 29, 2019 at 5:22 pm

Thank you!!! the command line insert (sudo spctl –master-disable) worked.
Why oh why does Apple insist on being so obtuse?

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Andrew says:
March 8, 2019 at 3:56 pm

This is not Apple being obtuse, in my opinion. This is Apple being protective
of its users.

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And because Apple is protective of its users, I don’t have to worry about
running extra software – virus protection, malware protection, and goodness
knows what else.

Thank you, Apple, for taking the time and care.

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jackson says:
March 5, 2019 at 9:43 am

This is amazing. Thank you soo much! All other tutorials were fake

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Stephen Strum says:


September 27, 2016 at 9:15 pm

My opinion as someone that used PCs for 20 years and then became a devout Mac
user is that this is a bunch of hogwash i.e. that Apple should think that only apps that
it supplies or those obtained from the App Store should pass muster, and that only
advanced users with magical skills should deviate from this activity →

“This is not recommended for most Mac users, only advanced Mac users and
developers who have the ability to accurately gauge app validity should use this
method.”

I have been purchasing or obtaining non-approved apps since day 1 of my converting


to Mac computers.

So those of us using PathFinder instead of the anemic Finder, or Moon, or other so-
called “3rd party apps” that make the use of Apple computers better for a lot of us
either have to be fortunate enough to find such apps in the App Store. For years, I
have used NeoOffice and paid a minor donation to the developer. Now, NeoOffice
made it into the “holy place” in the App Store and the same software is $39 dollars.
Here’s what would have been nice for Apple to have done instead:

An option in downloading apps (other than that which Tim Cook et al feel we users
can handle) should be one of the options found without having to use a Terminal
command. And if there are apps that are identified as malware or spam, then it would
be nice if Apple or some other company could notify users rather than make a
generalization that there are bad apps out there. I have intensely used my iMac over
the last 11 years and have never run into a problem with the many 3rd party apps that
I have purchased or obtained for free. And how many of those in the App Store were
“outcasts” for years before being granted sanctuary? Give me a break.

If Apple would stop spewing out new OS and improve key functions of the current
OS, it would make many of us Mac users a lot happier and more effective, and then
maybe a lot of the “other” apps I buy would not be necessary. A good example in my
case is that the upgrade to Sierra will not allow me to run a very important medical

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program called EndNote. Endnote is a Thomsen Reuters app that has been around for
decades & of course is not in the App Store.

I miss Steve Jobs. Apple has lost its pizzazz and vision.

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Peter says:
September 28, 2016 at 3:01 pm

The whole point is Apple is trying to get devs to sign their apps, they don’t have
to be from appstore. Right now devs are just to lazy to register as an Apple dev
and sign their apps.

This is a good thing not bad, just seems bad as devs are not doing what they
should be doing.

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Sebby says:
September 29, 2016 at 8:22 am

Mmm, and Apple just happens to get a recurring payment of £99/year for
the privilege. A complete coincidence, of course. :)

Come on. Yes, this security “feature” has a user-facing benefit, and I’d leave
it on just to get the warm fuzzy I do from “the legitimacy factor” of Apple’s
signature. I also think outright disabling the feature isn’t necessary. But as
with so many things Apple, priority #1 is Apple, and #2 is the user–
increasingly, it seems to me, a very distant second. The reality is that a well-
designed interface (like the one that existed before Mountain Lion, in fact) is
already perfectly good at warning users off from accidental invocations of
rogue software, and (although it can be hard to believe sometimes) not
everybody needs their hands held for them. More importantly, many devs
don’t need the hassle of paying Apple’s tax (think Open Source stuff) and, if
the option didn’t exist for users to run their software, they probably wouldn’t
port to the Mac at all.

I just hope it doesn’t get to the stage where unsigned apps aren’t allowed at
all. That would (will?) be a sad day.

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Clam says:
September 27, 2016 at 11:01 pm

Did something change in Sierra compared to El Capitan that prevents or removes the
functionality of ‘Ctrl+Click > “Open” menu item’ to selectively bypass Gatekeeper
when “App store and identified developers” is selected in the preferences? If not, then
changing the preferences to “Anywhere” is a bad idea and you really shouldn’t do it,
no matter how cool it is to fiddle with the system settings and make an option appear
that most people don’t have access to.

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More info about these options:


https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202491

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tobin says:
September 28, 2016 at 10:15 am

Yes in Mac OS you can still right click / control click to Open and circumvent
Gatekeeper, but for unidentified apps.

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dialoguy says:
May 9, 2017 at 7:26 pm

Running Sierra 10.12.5 Beta. Can’t open an app by right-clicking/”Open”


nor by getting the gatekeeper out of the way…

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John R says:
September 28, 2016 at 8:38 am

Heck, yeah, man. Open up your Mac to anything that wants to install. Go for it, the
sky is the limit. The PC world is yours for the taking.

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Ted says:
September 28, 2016 at 10:44 am

It’s been about a week without any Mac OS or iOS updates. I’m feeling unloved
Apple. Are you guys asleep or what.

GIMME MORE UPDATES!!!

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Joe says:
September 29, 2016 at 7:21 pm

First “App Nap” and now forcing the extra $99 a year from developers. I don’t like the
dictatorship that Apple is doing with OS X. I’ll be the judge when my apps should stop
functioning and why confuse your average user on why some apps will not run?
Sandboxing should solve most issues from misbehaving apps/developers. Apple is
getting annoying and over thinking some of the simplest things.

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Gareth says:
July 21, 2017 at 8:25 am

Let’s face it, Apples ethos with OSX is turning into Microsoft’s ethos for Windows
by filling it with bloatware and making its performance worse. Each upgrade
slows down the machine start up and we are now seeing the the spinning
Windows disc as often as we used to see the egg timer on Windows. Apple are

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just getting greedy having grabbed so many niches in the market. Just revisit
what happened to Blackberry, Nokia and almost to Microsoft and try to stop
pissing off your customers.

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Morgan says:
September 30, 2016 at 6:13 am

Apple has gone overboard trying to “nanny” its users. It is a vicious world out there,
but the fact is that the number of truly malicious apps is small. Outright banning the
ability to run apps that aren’t signed is a bit like the government stepping in and
banning anyone from eating fruit that’s not organic… (unless they ctrl-alt-click the non
organic banana in just the right place, to indicate their acceptance that the suspect
yellow fruit might cause their head to explode upon consumption.)
Apple… I have found myself desiring to get away from your nannyish self, seriously,
for the first time in 20+ years of use (i.e. NeXT then OS X). If the alternatives weren’t
so awful, I’d already be gone.

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Gert says:
October 1, 2016 at 6:43 am

Actually I hate it that Apple takes away choices the users previously had. Apple took
away the acces to the Library to prevent that some stupid people make mistakes.
That was easy to pass by, but still Apple is trying to take our freedom without
explaining and without giving different options.
I just want to keep my personal choice. I seldom pass the safety preferences of apple,
only so once in a while, and I restore the default settings immediately there after. Step
by step Apple is taking over as a advanced Big Brother that knows best, instead of
educating people. It’s almost like religion. The pastor knows what’s best for you.

I have not installed the new system just because of this.

By the way, is the command line option just to restore the “Anywhere” button, so I can
act like before? and restore full safety when returning to the other two buttons? or is
restoring the “Anywhere” button include a limited safety to the other two buttons?

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Carl Smith says:


October 3, 2016 at 5:00 am

It’s all about turning OS X into iOS. Apple make much more money charging huge
premuims on phones and mobile apps than selling laptops to developers, and clearly
thinks increasing margins is more important than market share. Basically, install Linux.

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Tyler Arndt says:


October 4, 2016 at 4:20 pm

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Have a couple programs for work that would no longer work after I updated my OS.
This was an easy fix!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

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Stanley Gorczynski says:


November 9, 2016 at 10:34 pm

I’ve had trouble launching a legit outside app and the company’s troubleshooting
guide said to delete it and reload and launch but now I cannot install it using either
method (Contol click in Apps or Anyway in Sys Pref). It gives me the option to install it
anyway but when I hit ok i get this msg. osstatus error -67071

Pls help

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Stanley Gorczynski says:


November 9, 2016 at 10:39 pm

Couldn’t you just click the Anywhere option to launch a particular as before and then
return and select the App Store and Developers option??? As before???

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veronica says:
November 15, 2016 at 4:43 am

can I just select back the identified developers option or does it somehow defaults
back to the “anywhere” if I don’t change it?

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veronica says:
November 15, 2016 at 4:46 am

ok apparently it doesn’t matter because the option “anywhere” went away just
by changing the selection to identified developers and closing the system
preferences

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MArtin says:
December 8, 2016 at 2:13 pm

Thank you so much for this one, and no, the Control-Click – Open thing does not
work anymore on macOS Sierra

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Remy says:
December 28, 2016 at 1:39 pm

Hi,

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I followed all the step but the “anywhere” doesn’t appear. I’m on MacBook Air if that
can help. If there is still someone here a little help would be really great.

Thanks in advance,
Rémy

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Nilesh Parmar says:


December 30, 2016 at 1:27 pm

Genius, thank you.

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Gumonx says:
January 1, 2017 at 1:58 pm

it works! thanks a lot! I where having trouble to install folx. Just a Quick question, can
we just leave this to have the “anywhere” option or is mandatory to re do the: sudo
spctl –master-enable on terminal?

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Samantha Atkins says:


January 7, 2017 at 2:04 am

This is nice to know but I am not happy. Developers either pay Apple a tax to sign
apps or worse, put up with all the app store restrictions and pay 30% of sales OR
they are locked out of serving the needs of most would be customers.

The average customer is not going to even go see that they can allow your app to run,
much less do something on the command line.

This is not about security. This is about Apple exerting as much control and extracting
as much money as possible. Please stop excusing it as about security. Security is not
that hard without such restriction.

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BRIAN says:
February 17, 2017 at 4:05 pm

why am i getting this when i type the command in?

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.


#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.

Password:
Sorry, try again.
Password:

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Karolis says:
February 18, 2017 at 4:29 pm

You are genius. Thank you

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Samuel says:
March 25, 2017 at 9:55 am

Thank you !! Big amount of useless topics but this one is finally solution. Thanks !!

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Matthew says:
March 28, 2017 at 4:45 pm

Thanks for this! I have a question though… Initially, by mistake, I entered the following
into the terminal:

sudo spctl

And nothing else! A load of type came up. I am not at all conversant with these things,
I wonder, has entering this alone caused any problems for my Mac? Any guidance on
this is much appreciated!

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irina says:
April 1, 2017 at 11:04 am

Hi, guys!
I tries every step described above but is not working. after Im typing the command a
small grey key shows up and doesnt let me type anything inside the terminal. I have
the admin password but I cant do anything with it.
I bought the computer a week ago from a guy who gave me all the data he thought I
might need. I went to the Apple store and the guys from there told me that the comp
is locked in some way by i dont know what sort of directory from the selling company
and that I have to talk to them in order to I dont know what because I dont
understand much from this SF language.
And this is not the only weird issue I have with the computer. Sometimes it tells me
that in order to run or download a certain app I have to download the last OS version,
or an OS newer than Lion/Snow Leopard etc. But I am already at Sierra. wtf? Or trying
to run Imovie I bumped into: you cant use this because the comp belonged to another
user.
What do I do? Do I have to reinstall the system? I have also windows in Bootcamp
and I am not sure how complicated this would be.
Thanks for help in advance.
Irina

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CplHare says:
April 3, 2017 at 12:51 pm

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Outstanding tip! Thank you

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caroline says:
April 7, 2017 at 6:26 am

THANK YOU!!

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galaflor says:
April 7, 2017 at 8:36 am

I tried this but it asked for an admin password with a key icon. Where do I find the
admin password?

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maria says:
June 11, 2017 at 3:59 am

I got the admin password too. Not sure what this is. Did you find a solution?

thanks

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Reza says:
April 16, 2017 at 2:24 pm

Very useful. Thank you.

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Abe says:
April 28, 2017 at 12:57 am

Thanks so much. This helped me. Strangely, sometimes Sierra reverts back from
“Anywhere” to “App Store” again. Anybody experienced this as well?

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Abe says:
April 28, 2017 at 12:57 am

Thanks so much. This helped me very much.

Strangely, sometimes Sierra reverts back from “Anywhere” to “App Store” again.
Anybody experienced this as well?

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Kim says:
May 10, 2017 at 5:08 pm

This was very helpful! Thank you very very much! I was on the phone with Apple
Technical service for more than 3-hours. My call was escalated, but Apple Technical
Service employees could not figure the issues (even after I kept saying “the
Anywhere” option is not visible).

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It took me weeks to find this information, but Thank you

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Christine says:
June 23, 2017 at 8:07 am

Hi
I followed all the instructions above, but I still get an error message when I click on
Bibisco to launch it. I have a screen capture of the error but cannot include it here.

It says : ” An Error has occured. Se the log file


/Users/mac/.eclipse/487195311_macosx_cocoa_x86_64/configuration/1498230110157.log.

Does it ring a bell to anyone?

Thx
C.

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Christine says:
June 23, 2017 at 8:26 am

Oh!!! I made it work! Forget my question!

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Evance D. Ajwang says:


August 3, 2017 at 12:10 am

It works for me i needed it for mac os sierra, 5 star salute.

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Anurag Lohan says:


August 28, 2017 at 2:53 pm

It did work for me too thanx a lot :)

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kent says:
October 3, 2017 at 8:50 am

thank you so much!

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Stefano says:
November 4, 2017 at 11:19 pm

Thank you.

By the way, how can I completely replace sierra with windows10 on a macbook air
2016 and an imac 2015?

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November 9, 2017 at 10:28 am

Apple,

Requiring a user to enter a super user terminal command to enable even the *option*
to install “unverified” third party software is 4@@!7@ anti-competitive! So is requiring
developers to this way to opt-in to a paid verification program, *or else.*

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David Deutsch says:


November 12, 2017 at 8:06 am

Brilliant!!!! I’ve been stuck for two days not being able to install anything. Apple
support was unable to help me. I’ve reinstalled High Sierra twice and safe mode
didn’t work and I couldn’t find any solutions on web. Finally found your fix and the
world is a good place again. Thank you.

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sad says:
November 14, 2017 at 6:27 am

That’s laughable, they turned macos into a system for idiots

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BigDaddy says:
November 30, 2017 at 10:38 am

Friggin thanks! I use JiTouch to expand my magic mouse capabilities. Its a pref pane
so there is no control clicking it to make it open every time.

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Bob Johnson says:


January 3, 2018 at 4:35 pm

After I do all of that, and try to install Adobe CS5.5, I get, at the last step, an error 35
message and a rejected install.

Ideas anyone?

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noname says:
February 27, 2018 at 5:01 am

Thanks! Wish I could turn off all this baby sitting stuff with one click….

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Jalal Khan says:


March 23, 2018 at 3:41 am

it works thanks bro

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anon says:
July 6, 2018 at 11:47 pm

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I can’t stand macOS made for monkeys. 50 hoops to jump through every time you
need to do something simple.

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Cherryl Bennett says:


July 26, 2018 at 8:01 am

I hold the same opinion. This is beyond ridiculous!

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Cherryl Bennett says:


July 26, 2018 at 7:59 am

I believe I made a comment about this, not long ago. I want to make another. My son
and his wife have used mac for years. They upgraded to High Sierra and still are able
to select to download from anywhere, simply by going to the area where that is done.

I, on the other hand, have to keep these commands saved to textedit, so that every
single time I need to download and install something, I can disable gatekeeper, get
the download and install done, then go enable gatekeeper again, all having to go to
terminal and put in commands to get this done.

This is not only ridiculous, this is utter stupidity. What is the difference in simply being
able to select to download from anywhere, than having to go through this pain of
disable and enable by the use of commands, but that it is making my experience with
using a mac to be a most dreaded one.

I am more often dragging out my Windows laptop, because all is simple, rather than
going through this royal pain just to do what I want to do on my laptop. And there are
other things about the mac that is a pain in the behind, but this one is the worst.

Another pain is that I simply would like to create a shortcut on my desktop and also
have the icon in the menu bar, but I keep having to read and read to find out what
long process I must go through in order to do this, what should be a very simple task,
just to get this done.

I hate that I have purchases a mac because I do not enjoy my time being made a
misery. I simply want to get on my laptop and do what I want to do, without such
misery. By the time I go through these long stupid processes to do something that
should be very simple, I am too tired, mentally exhausted from having to search and
search and read and read to find out what to do, that should be just a simple little task
to do, to even do what I came to my laptop to do.

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Lasitha says:
August 20, 2018 at 12:22 am

Thanks
Very useful

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Gussy says:
October 20, 2018 at 1:34 pm

Thank you VERY MUCH…easy to follow..very appropriate…just subscribed!!

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darius says:
November 13, 2018 at 8:59 am

OMG, that command line command has kept me from going insane!!!

Thank you for this post very much.

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laurie says:
November 29, 2018 at 6:49 am

this overactive nannying will surely push less computer literate people away from
installing indy software, by suggesting it’s untrusted/dangerous. The fact that signing
the app is a paid rolling subscription is disgusting. Not sure if I’m mad or sad…

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