Big Sur Problem?: "You do not have permission to open the application"

App & System Services Core OS macOS

Created Nov ’20

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With the new update off MacOS I have encountered an issue with opening quite a few off my applications as it says within the title I do not have the permission to open the application. Has anyone had any similar problems to this if so what have you done to resolve this and why does this occur.

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MouthFull1999 OP

Dec ’21

Dear friends,

I am happy to disclose that the solution is way simpler than bashing the terminal:

search for Activity Monitor.app in spotlight
find your app that threw an 10668 or similar error (i.e. Chrome)
double click it in the list, so that a dialog window opens where you click Quit
then another dialog window where you have to click Force Quit
Try reopening your application (i.e. Chrome) and it work just fine

As a result of updating your OS some files must be trapped in limbo and references are broken. Now, when you force quit, these files and references for this running instance must be built anew.

Cheers and greetings from Zurich, Switzerland

Aerostar OP

Mar ’22

I am totally new to Mac and had this issue. After looking in Finder, I realised (it seemed) the application has been removed. I re-installed and it and the issue was solved.

seruuu OP

Jul ’22

how do i run that is computer dumb help pls? where do i eneter it

Istone07 OP

Oct ’22

@SridharRaj Could you help me? Where should I type this command? in the Terminal? Or is this a step giude? - codesign --force --deep --sign - /Applications/SpringToolSuite4.app

I really appreciate if you could help me, I am totally rookie. Thank you!