[GH-ISSUE #1474] > Right click on Barrier under Applications in Finder and click open. #1123

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opened 2026-05-05 07:30:39 -06:00 by gitea-mirror · 0 comments

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Originally created by @WenMaoLin on GitHub (Dec 8, 2021).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/1474

Right click on Barrier under Applications in Finder and click open.
You'll get a dialog with an option to open.
Works for me whenever I run into the old " Apple cannot check it for malicious software" problem.

This only works if you have "Allow apps downloaded from" set to "App Store" and not "App Store and identified developers"

If, like me, you're on a corporate machine and can't change that setting, then right clicking on Barrier and choosing Open will not offer a dialog with an "Open" button.

Instead, you need to remove the "quarantine" attribute via the terminal:

xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Barrier.app

Originally posted by @borgstrom in https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/602#issuecomment-822429816

Originally created by @WenMaoLin on GitHub (Dec 8, 2021). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/1474 > Right click on Barrier under Applications in Finder and click open. > You'll get a dialog with an option to open. > Works for me whenever I run into the old " Apple cannot check it for malicious software" problem. This only works if you have "Allow apps downloaded from" set to "App Store" and not "App Store and identified developers" <img width="780" alt="Screen Shot 2021-04-19 at 8 26 56 AM" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1594130/115236229-18dea280-a0e9-11eb-8614-fc3a470bb2ca.png"> If, like me, you're on a corporate machine and can't change that setting, then right clicking on `Barrier` and choosing Open will not offer a dialog with an "Open" button. Instead, you need to remove the "quarantine" attribute via the terminal: ``` xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Barrier.app ``` _Originally posted by @borgstrom in https://github.com/debauchee/barrier/issues/602#issuecomment-822429816_