Screen Saver can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software.

[jcannon23]

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Description of issue

After installing and following the directions to go into 'Security & Privacy' and then click 'Open Anyway' for the "Brooklyn.saver", I'm still receiving the error message “Brooklyn.saver” can’t be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software.

[Azzuurro]

Same issue on my side but if you are following the followed steps, it should work!

1. Open Preferences
2. Select Security & Privacy
3. Select General
4. On the bottom side, select Open Anyway

Works on:
macOS Big Sur 11.4
MacBook Pro (2019)

[Onedah]

Im having same issue on MB Pro 16" with macOS Big Sur 11.5.2 appears that it needs to be updated.

[Yb-G]

@Onedah, use the steps that Azzuurro sent. It even works for my Macbook Air (2017) running 11.4 (20F71)!

Link: #95 (comment)

[Onedah]

@Yb-G tried the steps but does not work on MacOS 11.52

[AxelVincent]

You can bypass the click button solution by using this command to stop the apple macbook quarantine on the file in your terminal :

sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ~/"Library/Screen Savers/Brooklyn.saver"

[Onedah]

You can bypass the click button solution by using this command to stop the apple macbook quarantine on the file in your terminal :

sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ~/"Library/Screen Savers/Brooklyn.saver"

Thanks the above worked.

[Yb-G]

@pedrommcarrasco, it would be better if you put the above command in a Troubleshooting section in the README.md file so it would help other people instead of finding for this issue! 😃

[pedrommcarrasco]

@pedrommcarrasco, it would be better if you put the above command in a Troubleshooting section in the README.md file so it would help other people instead of finding for this issue! 😃

Sounds good to me, please open a Pull Request with your suggestion!

[AxelVincent]

@pedrommcarrasco, little reminder to check the PR ⬆️ 😉