<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Yes, the QGIS instructions are wrong due to confusion over left and right click of the mouse. If you right-click, you don't need the Option key for as long as I can remember. However, Macs don't have right-click turned on by default, so right-click may not work for some users. </div><div><br></div><div>The preferred instructions should be as Apple says, to control-click on the icon and choose Open from the context menu, after which a confirmation dialog is shown and they need to click the Open button.</div><div><br></div><div>John.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 27 Jan 2023 at 17:17, Andrea Giudiceandrea via QGIS-User <<a href="mailto:qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org">qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<blockquote type="cite"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:medium;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">John Layt</b><br>
<i>Thu Jan 26 07:12:39
PST 2023</i>
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<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">you need to manually
approve the app by first right-clicking on the app and selecting Open from
the context menu. The Option key is not required.
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So the instructions ("right-click on the QGIS app icon, hold down
the Option key, then choose Open") on the QGIS website [1] are
wrong? See a comment by a macOS 13.0 user complaining that "If you
hold the option key you cannot choose Open" [2].<br>
<br>
Moreover, the instructions by Apple at [3] say: "in Finder locate
the app then Control-click the app icon -> Open -> Open". It
seems this worked for a macOS 13.0 user [4].<br>
<br>
Maybe the instructions are macOS version specific?<br>
<br>
Could a macOS expert propose an improvement to the instructions on
the QGIS website?<br>
<br>
Best regards.<br>
<br>
Andrea Giudiceandrea<br>
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[1] <a href="https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html" target="_blank">https://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/download.html</a><br>
[2]
<a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/51616#issuecomment-1406762797" target="_blank">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/51616#issuecomment-1406762797</a><br>
[3] <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchleab3a043/mac" target="_blank">https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchleab3a043/mac</a><br>
[4]
<a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/51616#issuecomment-1406795420" target="_blank">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/51616#issuecomment-1406795420</a><br>
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