Having trouble installing darktable on my Macbook Pro

Software darktable
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Hi,
I have a Macbook Pro Apple M2 Max and when I try and open the application I get the message:

“darktable.app” Not Opened
Apple could not verify “darktable.app” is free of malware that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy.
Done or Move to Bin

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you
Greg

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You need to override the security and tell it to install/open. Not sure how you do this on MAC but a quick google search should provide the answer.

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Thank you,

I ran the terminal script:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/darktable.app

and it now opens but I don’t get any views, just access to the settings.

Cheers,
Greg

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Can you share a screenshot?

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This is all I get. When I click on a view from the menu, nothing happens.

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There are some instructions on the intall page: install | darktable

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check your ./config/darktable and maybe delete the darktablerc file - if you never used darktable then you can delete the whole content to be sure you start from scratch.

maybe run it from terminal with debugging output options to get more infos:
/Applications/darktable.app/Contents/MacOS/darktable -d common

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Thank you,
That fixed it. I am now getting the views.
Much appreciated.
Cheers,
Greg