Lazarus Pascal - macOS - fpcupdeluxe-aarch64-darwin-cocoa.app damaged - Delphi, Lazarus, Free Pascal https://www.tweaking4all.com/forum/delphi-lazarus-free-pascal/lazarus-pascal-macos-fpcupdeluxe-aarch64-darwin-cocoa-app-damaged/ Tweaking4All.com Discussion Board en-US Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:15:07 +0000 wpForo 60 Lazarus Pascal - macOS - fpcupdeluxe-aarch64-darwin-cocoa.app damaged https://www.tweaking4all.com/forum/delphi-lazarus-free-pascal/lazarus-pascal-macos-fpcupdeluxe-aarch64-darwin-cocoa-app-damaged/#post-5263 Sat, 23 Dec 2023 15:06:04 +0000 Just posting this here as a reminder for myself, but maybe it is useful to other 😊 

When downloading fpcupdeluxe for macOS, then you may run into the dreaded "fpcupdeluxe-aarch64-darwin-cocoa.app” is damaged and can’t be opened" error message. I've had this only on my M1 Mac, but this may happen on Intel hardware as well of course.

* this may apply to other applications as well, when not downloaded from the Apple Store.

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A fis for this, is running this in Terminal:

xattr -cr fpcupdeluxe-aarch64-darwin-cocoa.app

which clears recursively the extended attributes of the files in the .app bundle and resolves the issue.

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