"Colorpicker" (2.2.2) is damaged and can't be opened (on macOS)

[sepeth]

Hi there,

Thank you for this cool app. However it doesn't seem working for me 🥲 When I want to try launching it on macOS. It says:

“Colorpicker” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Bin.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Just launch the app the first time.

Expected behavior

The app window should be shown so that I could interact with it.

Screenshots

OS (please complete the following information):

• OS: macOS Sonoma
• Version 14.6.1

Colorpicker (please complete the following information):

• Version 2.2.2 (the version that was linked in the website). I also tried installing with homebrew, but got the same result with it too (which was also the version 2.2.2).

[Toinane]

Hey @sepeth thank you for the report! I managed to get arm macbook, I will try to fix this issue 👍

[AlexKrew]

Same here

[william0833]

hello,macmini m4 system macOS 15.1.1 same error, file is corrupted

[Toinane]

I need to continue investigating. Building on local arm macbook looks working well but the build produced by arm apple CI on Github produce corrupted file..

[amterp]

Anyone figured out a workaround, meanwhile?

[Nowaker]

Solution

xattr -cr /Applications/Colorpicker.app

[astr0gator]

@Toinane any updates? 🙂

[ADTC]

@Toinane I'm facing the same problem with arm64 though the x64 version works. (I'm on Apple Silicon.)

[ADTC]

@Nowaker wow, thanks. That actually worked for the arm64 version!

xattr -cr /Applications/Colorpicker.app

[Toinane]

Hello here! I've fixed the issue in https://github.com/Toinane/colorpicker/releases/tag/2.3.0 👍 Feel free to reopen if something went wrong!

[bevanjkay]

In order to be supported on macOS without having to override any Gatekeeper warnings (Colorpicker is damaged...) the applications has to be codesigned and notarized. Signing with an ad-hoc signature, as has been done with version 2.3.0 is not sufficient to overcome the warnings.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizing-macos-software-before-distribution

[Toinane]

hey @bevanjkay it's a know issue as I responded in #22 For now I don't want to pay 99$ from my own just to sign the current colorpicker version (lot buggy, pretty old, etc.) I'm currently reworking all the codebase, implement new features and when I'm good with the new version, I'll pay for signing it 👍

But now I understand why I can use it on my macos when I compile on it but it's not working when I tried the CI compilation