A little help, please

[James Sentman]

Sorry Thomas, I had marked this as something to ask for more info about as I am not sure what you’re seeing.

Those settings should stick once they are given, but it is possible for them to go missing during an update or moving of the app. In which case you’ll have to go into the Security and Privacy control panel and find all the places that XTension is listed. It will still have a checkbox by it, but it won’t actually be working. If you just uncheck and re-check the checkbox then it will again be allowed to do whatever is causing the popup. Until the next time you update XTension at least.

I haven’t had this problem on more recent versions of Mojave but I know I did in the past with earlier OS versions. I don’t know if Apple has fixed it everywhere or just more recently.

I’m not sure that signing the python binaries will make any real difference as they are part of the system and therefore exempt from such things. The installers for python3 are already properly signed as well so unless you installed that via some untrusted binary distribution somewhere it should be fine. If you did build it yourself by running the brew scripts or something similar then it should also be fine as anything you build on the same machine is automatically allowed as it’s yours. The OS never asks me about any such thing when I am running unsigned test versions of XTension because they were created right here on the same machine.

> On Feb 22, 2020, at 9:22 AM, Thomas Arman <tarman at me.com> wrote:
> 
> 1) Can someone tell me how to get MacOS to allow Python to do its work when i start XTension without me having to give it my okay every time?

Thanks,
 James


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