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SOLVED: You do not have permission to open the application “Mac.app”

Ahmad AwaisAhmad Awais

I was just trying to open a macOS app packaged by a third-party software company that doesn’t exist anymore and I was getting the following error:

You do not have permission to open the application “Mac.app”.

Tried everything I could find to open the app and only the following solution worked for me — I had to sign the app again.

codesign --force --deep --sign - /path/to/the/Mac.app

I hope this helps someone.

Founder & CEO of ⌘ Command Code coding agent with taste. Founded Langbase.com, AI cloud to build, deploy, and scale AI agents with tools & memory · Creator of Command.new.

"Awais is an awesome example for developers" — Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft.

NASA Mars Ingenuity Helicopter mission code contributor 8th GitHub Stars Award recipient with 5x GitHub Stars Award (Listed as GitHub's #1 JavaScript trending developer). Google Developers Expert Web DevRel.

Ex VP Eng (DevTools & DevRel) Rapid · Google Developers Advisory Board (gDAB) founding member · AI/ML/DevTools Angel Investor (Replit, Resend, Daytona, Gumroad and you?) ❯ AI/ML Advisory Board San Francisco, DevNetwork.

Award-winning Open Source Engineering leader authored hundreds of open-source dev-tools and software libraries used by millions of developers, including Shades of Purple code theme and corona-cli.

Linux Foundation (Node.js Committee Lead), OpenAPI Business Governing Board. Taught 108K+ developers via NodeCLI.com and VSCode.pro course. 274 million views, blogging for 24 yrs.

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  • Jang
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    Jang Jang

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    Still didn’t work for an old app


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