On Mojave (10.14) the presence of the Portable Preferences folder prevents the ‘Audacity’ is an app from the internet, are you sure want to open it’ dialogue from appearing - instead it’s the ‘Audacity is damaged’ message (essentially there is no option to ‘un-quarantine’). The prefs folder works fine if you put it back into the app after it’s un-quarantined.
On Catalina the same app does not give you the ‘are you sure you want to open it’ message, prefs folder inside or not.
Essentially what I’m trying to do is make a version of audacity with modified preferences available to people directly. Since this seems like a developer signing thing, can I solve this by building from source?
juan
ps - also tried right-click open, same results
Portable Preferences and Code Signing
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This forum is for Audacity on macOS 10.4 and later.Please state which version of macOS you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Audacity menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the 1.2.x and 1.3.x forums.
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juanBerger
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Re: Portable Preferences and Code Signing
Apple are now insisting that apps are digitally signed with an certificate issued by Apple, and notarized. This makes it rather difficult to distribute builds of open source software.
9/10 questions are answered in the FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)
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juanBerger
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Re: Portable Preferences and Code Signing
Thanks Steve that makes sense.
I made some progress with this by building with the prefs folder already in, just having some issues with build_dist.sh. Running this seems like a few parsing errors in the notarize function (for example: Entry, "notarization-upload:RequestUUID", Does Not Exist). Some of these were solved by removing the \ escapes from xcrun altool arguments, but there are others, so still seems like I'm doing something wrong. Anyone see this before?
-- Many Thanks
I made some progress with this by building with the prefs folder already in, just having some issues with build_dist.sh. Running this seems like a few parsing errors in the notarize function (for example: Entry, "notarization-upload:RequestUUID", Does Not Exist). Some of these were solved by removing the \ escapes from xcrun altool arguments, but there are others, so still seems like I'm doing something wrong. Anyone see this before?
-- Many Thanks