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Installing from brew won't run due to "Hidden Bar.app" can't be opened because Apple cannot check it for malicious software. #290

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preetmyob opened this issue Apr 7, 2024 · 9 comments

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@preetmyob
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Describe the bug

I'm just reinstalling everying on my machine which has been reimaged by our company to new. I installed hiddenbar from the brew, using brew install --cask hiddenbar but I cannot open it.

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The app should open

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@Etx17
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Etx17 commented Apr 8, 2024

same problem here

@jwchoi-kr
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I have same issue, but I could install it with appstore

@shiroyasha9
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You can open it by following the steps below (this has to be done just once)

  1. Find "Hidden Bar" in Finder -> Applications
  2. Control-click the app -> Click Open
  3. Now you should have an "Open" option in the dialog that appears.

Taken from here:
https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/mac-help/mchleab3a043/mac

@amarendra
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It doesn't work. I installed from Mac App Store. I have tried the CTRL + CLICK method as well. Preference Pane opens but the icon never shows up in the menu bar. Tried killing the app from Activity Monitor and starting again.

@josephyooo
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You can open it by following the steps below (this has to be done just once)

  1. Find "Hidden Bar" in Finder -> Applications
  2. Control-click the app -> Click Open
  3. Now you should have an "Open" option in the dialog that appears.

Taken from here: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/mac-help/mchleab3a043/mac

Works great on Sonoma 14.3 running on M3.

@LesterJitsi
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LesterJitsi commented Apr 30, 2024

If the above workaround does not work and you trust the developer, enter in Terminal the following command:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Hidden\ Bar.app

This will remove the quarantine flag that prevents launching the application. If you run Hidden Bar from a different location, just change the path (drag the application on to Terminal window after xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine and pressing the space bar). You should run the command only once.

@kirillvb
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kirillvb commented May 8, 2024

Go to: System preferences -> Security and Privacy -> Unlock settings (icon in left bottom) -> Allow.

@amarendra
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amarendra commented May 9, 2024

None of these workarounds are working. (The preference window was already opening after I had tried xattr method that Lester also mentioned later). After that nothing works.

I have given up already and as of now I am not using any menu bar app. (By the way: with caveat that shortcut to toggle feature doesn't work, among all these, Dozer still worked the best).

@preetmyob
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sudo xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Hidden\ Bar.app

Has worked for me now.

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