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Problem with ZFileUtils on Mac

A customer that has a Mac bough a plugin of mine that uses ZFileUtils.lib
For some reason it shows this message of the image attached

It seems their system detects ZFileUtils.lib as unsigned or from an unknown developer.
I updated the file to the lastest one for ZBrush 2023, but still it’s not marked as safe.
How can we make this work, or mark it as safe, so their Max OS doesn’t disallow it?
Thansk.

Hey , I am not a mac developer so i can’t to tell you more than what i had read with this article link below. you have to tell the process to your mac user to allow the lib to be opened.
link : How to Fix 'Cannot Be Opened Because the Developer Cannot be Verified' Error on Mac

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Thank you. I showed them this same article, but they ended just not doing it because they feared a security problem.

The file for Max should be signed, or it will give problems to more people apart from me.

I have just marked my product as not compatible for Mac to avoid future problems, while it actually is, just the .lib needs being signed or something.

Did you bundled with the latest version of the Zfileutils ? you can download a version of ZBRUSH 2023 here :
http://docs.pixologic.com/user-guide/customizing-zbrush/zscripting/zfileutils/

Because i am still coding stuff for Zbrush on the 2022 version, I noticed only just now, that all instances of zfileutils64.dll and zfileutils.lib files, all has been removed from some plugins data folders like helpdata, scalemasterdata, zbrushtophotoshopdata etc…
Looks like there is another way to do it now with plugins which are shipped by default with the ZBrush install.

so now for example you are on mac and you want to use one of this plugins

many plugins here need the zfileutil.lib by the way this mean if you are mac user and want to use these plugins, you have no other choice then flag the lib as unsafe but allow it to run because you can’t do anything else, or you just don’t use these plugins anymore.

That is going to be a problem for me too, and I have developed my own C library but as non mac user I can’t to compile the code cause i don’t have any MAC :stuck_out_tongue:

Hope it helps,
Nicolas

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Yes, I included the latest version in the plugin of the .lib file, but the problem is the same.

Hope that at some point someone from Maxon chimes in and tells what to use instead of zfileutils.lib or gives a version that doesn’t do that on Mac.