Thanks Curtis for this useful information.

I succeeded to fresh-install both ImageJ and Fiji on MacOS 15.1.1 (Sequoia).
Hopefully you and Wayne will succeed to get the apps signed & notarized, so 
that one can full-heartedly recommend them to any user.

Best regards, Norbert

> On 4 Feb 2025, at 02:38, Curtis Rueden <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Norbert,
> 
> Yes, it gets increasingly difficult to defeat Apple's Gatekeeper from
> "keeping you safe".
> 
> Open a Terminal, cd to the directory where your ImageJ.app lives, and run:
> 
>  sudo chflags -R nouchg ImageJ.app
>  sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine ImageJ.app
> 
> And then hopefully it will start up when you subsequently launch it.
> 
> Relevant Image.sc Forum thread:
> https://forum.image.sc/t/warning-your-imagej-installation-cannot-be-updated-because-it-is-read-only/20333/4
> 
> Regards,
> Curtis
> 
> P.S. Fiji will soon ship a signed & notarized Fiji.app bundle, to appease
> Gatekeeper.
> 
> P.P.S. Wayne: Let me know if you would like a signed & notarized ImageJ.app
> as well.
> 
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM Norbert Vischer <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> ImageJ on my Intel Mac works correctly:
>> ImageJ 1.54m; Java 1.8.0_345 [64-bit], MacOS 15.1.1 (Sequoia)
>> 
>> But when I try a fresh install via
>> "Download ImageJ bundled with Java 8" from
>> 
>> https://imagej.net/ij/download.html
>> 
>> Apple suggests "move to bin" and I cannot do the old trick by
>> right-clicking the ImageJ icon and choose "Open", nor moving the app
>> (temporarily) to a different folder.
>> 
>> Also on my Intel Mac, I discovered that metadata of "About ImageJ" shows
>> the wrong MacOS version number:
>>        ImageJ 1.54m; Java 1.8.0_345 [64-bit];
>>        Mac OS X 10.16; 25MB of 3000MB (<1%)
>> However, my Mac Intel OS X is:
>>        15.1.1
>> 
>> (On my M1 Mac, version MacOs 14.2 is shown correctly.)
>> 
>> My question: Has anyone succeeded to perform a fresh install on an Intel
>> Mac with MacOS 15.1.1 (Sequoia)?
>> 
>> Best regards
>> Norbert
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