Bug 496828

Summary: After installation, launching fails with "The application 'Finder' does not have permission to open “(null).”"
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: rcfa <rcfa+kde.org>
Component: Bundle-MacOSAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: caulier.gilles, rcfa+kde.org
Priority: NOR    
Version: 8.5.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: macOS (DMG)   
OS: macOS   
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Description rcfa 2024-11-29 12:02:08 UTC 
SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. download the official macOS installer package digiKam-8.5.0-Qt5-MacOS-x86_64.pkg
2. install it by jumping through the Apple "install unsigned packages" hoops.
3. locate the freshly installed digikam.app and showfoto.app apps in /Applications/digiKam.org
4. double click on either one of them to launch

OBSERVED RESULT
Instead of the app launching, an alert panel is shown:

The application “Finder” does not have permission to open “(null).”

EXPECTED RESULT

The app launching….

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
macOS: 15.2 Beta (24C5089c) (intel)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Trying to launch the app manually from the CLI with

/Applications/digiKam.org/digikam.app/Contents/MacOS/digikam

kind of works, albeit then I get some bogus error message about lack of write permission to ~/Pictures (which in my case is a mount point for a case-sensitive APFS volume, to which I obviously do have write access, as all my other photo apps access it without any issues…), despite the app previously having been given full drive access in Apple’s 'Privacy & Security" settings.

I then continued to point the app to ~/Library/Application\ Support/digiKam/ (the last element a folder I created) for the location of the databases, which allowed the app to finally launch. I haven’t been able to use the app yet for anything, but at least I can launch the app from the shell.

Even after setup, the app won’t launch by double clicking from the Finder.
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2024-11-29 12:12:32 UTC 
Read well the story from bug 496380 and thanks a lots Apple to make a big puzzle with last MacOS version...

Gilles Caulier

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 496380 ***