“S4A.app” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.

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Nov 3, 2013, 12:05:52 PM11/3/13
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OS X 10.9 Mavericks, downloaded today (November 3, 2013).

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Steve

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Nov 4, 2013, 8:28:31 AM11/4/13
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I can't confirm the problem, I have Mavericks installed, too, and everything works just as before. Maybe do what it says: move the app to trash, download and reinstall it.

Mareen

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Nov 4, 2013, 12:35:50 PM11/4/13
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Hi Steve, 

Please follow the next instructions (extracted from here):
  1. Go to  > System Preferences… > Security & Privacy > General
  2. Change "Allow applications downloaded from:" to "Mac App Store and identified developers" or "Anywhere"
Hope this helps!


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Apr 12, 2014, 4:01:29 PM4/12/14
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It was already set to "Mac App Store and identified developers" and had to change to "Anywhere" before the app could be opened.

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Thanks! This was helpful.

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Thanks a lot. It worked and brought my frustration to an end, finally. Thanks

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How can I do this?

Mareen Przybylla

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Have you figured it out? Instructions were further down in this dialogue:

> Go to  > System Preferences… > Security & Privacy > General 
>
> Change "Allow applications downloaded from:" to "Mac App Store and identified developers" or "Anywhere" 

Mareen


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May 29, 2016, 2:21:35 PM5/29/16
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i made a video plzz see i found the problem and solved it

here is the link:https://www.youtube.com/my_videos?o=U

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Nov 4, 2016, 10:08:51 PM11/4/16
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On Sierra (macos 10.12.1), which doesn't offer the "Allow downloaded from Anywhere" option, I am getting the same message about "“S4A.app” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash."

I was able to get S4A to run once on this machine by doing control-click on the "S4A.image" file instead of the S4A.app file -- I saved a project, but now it is an hour later and S4A won't run any more. Back to the "damaged... trash" message, regardless of how many times I trash it and re-download the installer and re-install. Sigh.

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Nov 30, 2016, 3:58:55 PM11/30/16
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On Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 3:08:51 AM UTC+1, mr...@saintannsny.org wrote:
> On Sierra (macos 10.12.1), which doesn't offer the "Allow downloaded from Anywhere" option, I am getting the same message about "“S4A.app” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash."
>
> I was able to get S4A to run once on this machine by doing control-click on the "S4A.image" file instead of the S4A.app file -- I saved a project, but now it is an hour later and S4A won't run any more. Back to the "damaged... trash" message, regardless of how many times I trash it and re-download the installer and re-install. Sigh.

Don't know if this is an issue still, but follow this quide to enable the "Anywhere" option in Sierra.

http://osxdaily.com/2016/09/27/allow-apps-from-anywhere-macos-gatekeeper/

Also, launch the image, not the S4A.app file. If you do launch S4A.app a file select dialog will be displayed and the only file you can choose is the cat-face image file in the application directory.

Mike Roam

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Dec 1, 2016, 3:03:32 PM12/1/16
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Thank you:
I was able to get S4A running on macos 10.12 Sierra following your
guidance and your link to
http://osxdaily.com/2016/09/27/allow-apps-from-anywhere-macos-gatekeeper/
.

For any other mac administrators on Sierra, here is the procedure to
get S4A running.

(1)--Turn off mac gatekeeper from terminal ("sudo spctl
--master-disable"). Be sure to turn it back on! (step 3 below)
(2)--Run S4A.image …for me, finally success! (No more message about
"S4A is damaged..."). I also ran S4A.app successfully. (S4A.app pops
up a dialog box which can be directed to happily open
/Applications/S4A/S4A.image). This might not be necessary but I didn't
want it to later re-ask for permission to run.
(3)--Turn gatekeeper back on (terminal: "sudo spctl --master-enable").

Afterward S4A.image is still runnable and gatekeeper is on again. Hallelujah.

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Dec 4, 2016, 4:17:04 AM12/4/16
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it does work see my video


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May 1, 2017, 2:55:49 AM5/1/17
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Simpler.

Just run:

sudo xattr -rc /Applications/S4A/

from terminal after dragging S4A to the applications folder.

The other options didn't work for me. This one did.
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May 1, 2017, 3:59:06 AM5/1/17
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Thanks! u should put it up in comments

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Thanks a lot, maurício! Yours was the only option that worked for me as well! Great job!
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