Vela Soeterbroek Posted April 23 Report Posted April 23 (edited) Hello there, I have been struggling to get the latest vintigestory updates to work or even open.. ever sinds v1.22.0-rc.1 came out I haven't been able to open the game anymore. I feel like I have tried everything to get it to work. I followed tons of tutorials. I play on macbook air witch runs on macos Sequoia version 15.7.3 (24G419). I've got NET 8.0 Runtime (v8.0.22) - macOS x64 installed as well. everytime I download vintigestory 1.22.0 and try to start it, it tells me the following: "Vintage Story is damaged and can't be opened. Remove it to the trach can". apparently this issue is common among mac users. So I tried using Terminal. I have tried the following commands: cd/Applications sudo sattr -rd com.apple.quarantine "Vintige Story.app" and: sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine "Vintage Story.app" Terminal keeps on telling me that there is "no such file". and that's the end of it. And yes, the game was in my "applicatons" folder. i'm not sure what i'm doing wrong.. maybe another command? please someone help me. im scared I won't be able to play the new updates at all.. If there is any information needed that is missing, please let me know! I'd really appreciate some help with this.. Thank you so much in advance! Edited April 23 by Vela Soeterbroek
williams_482 Posted April 23 Report Posted April 23 What do you get when you run ls -la "Vintage Story.app" from your applications folder?
williams_482 Posted April 23 Report Posted April 23 Run cd Applications first. "cd" is short for "change directory", it moves you into the given directory.
Solution Diff Posted April 23 Solution Report Posted April 23 Easier way, type just sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine (make sure to include an extra space after "com.apple.quarantine ") and then drag and drop the Vintage Story app into the terminal and hit enter. 1
Vela Soeterbroek Posted April 23 Author Report Posted April 23 1 minute ago, Diff said: Easier way, type just sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine (make sure to include an extra space after "com.apple.quarantine ") and then drag and drop the Vintage Story app into the terminal and hit enter. Looked really promesing for a sec, it did not say that anything was wrong either. but it did not start the game
Vela Soeterbroek Posted April 23 Author Report Posted April 23 6 minutes ago, Diff said: Easier way, type just sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine (make sure to include an extra space after "com.apple.quarantine ") and then drag and drop the Vintage Story app into the terminal and hit enter. am I supposed to type another command after this one?
Vela Soeterbroek Posted April 23 Author Report Posted April 23 LADIES AND GENTELMEN, IT WORKED!! it now starts from the application folder!! thank you sooo much everyone!!! omg! i LOVE this community! 1
Diff Posted April 23 Report Posted April 23 8 minutes ago, Vela Soeterbroek said: LADIES AND GENTELMEN, IT WORKED!! it now starts from the application folder!! thank you sooo much everyone!!! omg! i LOVE this community! You got it, no output expected (in the terminal, radio silence generally means that everything went okay) but it clears the flag that prevents you from opening it from the Applications folder.
Billytacobob Posted April 25 Report Posted April 25 On 4/23/2026 at 7:34 AM, Diff said: You got it, no output expected (in the terminal, radio silence generally means that everything went okay) but it clears the flag that prevents you from opening it from the Applications folder. I still can't get my to work it just doesn't launch
Diff Posted April 25 Report Posted April 25 7 hours ago, Billytacobob said: I still can't get my to work it just doesn't launch What does it say if you do this with Vintage Story and a Terminal? DragNDrop.mp4
Billytacobob Posted April 25 Report Posted April 25 1 hour ago, Diff said: What does it say if you do this with Vintage Story and a Terminal? DragNDrop.mp4 it says my app failed to launch
Billytacobob Posted April 25 Report Posted April 25 On 4/23/2026 at 7:34 AM, Diff said: You got it, no output expected (in the terminal, radio silence generally means that everything went okay) but it clears the flag that prevents you from opening it from the Applications folder. I reinstalled the Net and it worked! Sorry for bothering you with this but I very much appreciate the help and how you went above and beyond to show me. It means a lot and I am so happy to get introduced to the community this way! 1
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