“Animate” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.

Whenever I try to install and reinstal Animate on Mac Mojave I get this error :

“Animate” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.

I tried all these: nothing worked even restating after each try

Remove the folder /Library/Application Support/FLEXnet Publisher.
If the folder doesn’t exist skip this step.

Uninstall the software by dragging it’s folder to the trash and
then empty the trash. Do the rest from an “Admin” class user account:

  1. Open a terminal Window from Applications/Utilities and run the
    command: sudo spctl --master-disable
    in the Terminal application
  2. Go into the System Preferences and from there to “Security & Privacy”,
    on the General tab set “Allow Applications downloaded from:” to “Anywhere”.
  3. Download the installer (if you don’t have it anymore)
  4. Mount the DMG (i.e. click on the installer for the software).
  5. Drag the the icon of the software to the icon of the Applications folder.
  6. Start the software by right-clicking (or ctrl+click) and selecting Open.

Hi nawafL,

For these kinds of issues please reach out to desk@toonboom.com and they’ll be able to troubleshoot this with you!

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