Choregraphe - The application "Finder" does not have permission to open "(null)"

Modified on Mon, 16 Dec at 2:59 PM

Running Choregraphe 2.8.8 on MacOS 15

If you see a dialog box that states : The application "Finder" does not have permission to open "(null)" please follow the workaround below :
In Finder, locate your Choregraphe application that was extracted from the Choregraphe-2.8.8-mac-standalone.zip
Open up the Terminal app.
Drag the Choregraphe icon into the Terminal. You should see text appear pointing to it's path. The text should be something like: /Users/username/Downloads/Choregraphe\ 2.8.8/Choregraphe.app
Add /Contents/MacOS/choregraphe to this path, so that it looks something like this (note that there may have been a space after "Choregraphe.app" which you need to first delete): /Users/username/Downloads/Choregraphe\ 2.8.8/Choregraphe.app/Contents/MacOS/choregraphe
Press the ENTER key. Mac OS will take some time to verify it, and raise a dialog box with ""Choregraphe" Not Opened." Click Done on this dialog box.
Now open up Privacy & Security section of System Settings.
Scroll down to find "Choregraphe" was blocked to protect your mac. Click Open Anyway.
Now go back to the terminal. Press the Up arrow key to bring back the previous command, and execute it again. The command should be something like: /Users/username/Downloads/Choregraphe\ 2.8.8/Choregraphe.app/Contents/MacOS/choregraphe
MacOS will bring up a dialog box to Open "Choregraphe"?. Click on Open Anyway.

Choregraphe should be able to start now.
	---> To start Choregraphe in the future, you must continue to use the terminal command ! <---
If you see a dialog box that states The 3D view of Choregraphe has crashed, then please select Try once without the 3D.