Post by scooterthedog in A Wish Upon A Star comments

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Hi there! I bought this in the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality, and tried downloading it on my mum's Macbook Air coz I thought she'd like it. Unfortunately, it's giving me the following error message when I attempt to open the application:

'The application "AWishUponAStar 10.01.25 pm" can't be opened."

I have tried redownloading it and re-unzipping it from the .zip file, but neither appears to be working, as it keeps giving me that same error message. For reference, it's a MacBook Air from early 2015ish running macOS Catalina with an Intel i5 processor and 4GB of RAM.

I don't suppose you have any idea why this might be? Or any potential work-around I can attempt?

Beiwerk4 years ago(+1)

Hi, sorry you are having issues. I received a few of those messages, but unfortunately I think it's due to Apple being overly restrictive as to which software people can install. From what I understand I'd need to "sign" the app with them, but I didn't do it (as it's not free).

Have you tried installing the game through the itch.io app? https://itch.io/app

Also this might help? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491

I don't own a mac myself, so I can't test this unfortunately.

scooterthedog4 years ago

Thanks Fabian! I tried the itch.io app, and after telling the computer to ignore that that app was downloaded from the internet, I could use it to install the game! I appreciate the help! :)

Beiwerk4 years ago(+1)

Awesome! Hope you and/or your mother will enjoy it, thanks for reporting back!