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Can you work around it by right-clicking[1] on the application and selecting "open" from the context menu? In some situations that helps with applications OS X
by Kristine1975 11y ago
Can you work around it by right-clicking[1] on the application and selecting "open" from the context menu? In some situations that helps with applications OS X deems "insecure."
[1] Yes, Macs support mice with more than a single button now ;-)
- mikeash 11y agoThis wouldn't help. The problem was not that the apps were being flagged as insecure, but rather that they were being flagged as not having the right to run it on your computer. Basically, the apps demand proof of purchase (called a "receipt" in App Store terms) before they'll run, and the proof of purchase had expired, so they refused to run. The fix involves convincing the App Store to issue you a new one that isn't expired.
- martin-adams 11y agoHaha, took me a long time to release I could plug a two-button mouse into a Mac to get the second button.
- arm 11y agoMacs have had support for mice with more than a single button since at least Mac OS 9 (released in 1999).
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoOS 9? Was it added so PC USB mice would work on the iMac?
- arm 11y agoFrom what I can see from this thread¹, it would seem so: “The last versions of OS 9 were pretty good about right mouse button support. Most mice should work fine.” I would test it myself on my iMac G3 (Summer 2001), but unfortunately, I already upgraded it to Mac OS X v10.4.11 Tiger, and it’s getting active use, so I can’t exactly go downgrading it at the moment. ―――――― ¹ — https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1824021 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1824021