disable gatekeeper altogether

[guido.coza]

I recently changed from a perfectly fine working Mojave to a nightmarish Monterey. (12.6.2)
Not only could I throw nearly a dozen apps in the bin as they just did not want to work anymore, I can't install new ones and now it even suggests to throw my own photos in the bin 🤬🤬
I have more than 70.000 photos!!!!

Some of the apps I could get to open with

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /

I than tried to disable gatekeeper in the hope I could open my pictures, sadly in-vane.

sudo spctl --master-disable

Is there any way where I can all together disable this nonsense or do I really need to go back to mojave in order to use my computer as I want to??

This is insane!!
Please help I am beyond frustrated!

 

[katbel]

I recently changed from a perfectly fine working Mojave to a nightmarish Monterey.
Not only could I throw nearly a dozen apps in the bin as they just did not want to work anymore, I can't install new ones and now it even suggests to throw my own photos in the bin 🤬🤬

Some of the apps I could get to open with

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /
I than tried to disable gatekeeper in the hope I could open my pictures sadly in-vane.

sudo spctl --master-disable

Is there any way where I can all together disable this nonsense or do I really need to go back to mojave in order to use my computer as I want to??

This is insane!!
Please help I am beyond frustrated!

Sorry for your troubles! Recently , I just upgraded from Mojave to Big Sur and I was looking for infos about Monterey
but after reading your experience I pass it for now
I had my share with Photos as well: it's insane how it works after Mojave .
I had a backup (3 actually )that helped me to go back
Big Sur is pretty stable, had to tune it a little bit but now it's ok
Good luck!

 

[Fishrrman]

OP:

WHERE are the photos that won't open?
Are they on your internal drive?
Are they on a backup or external drive?

What app do you want to open them INTO?
What happens when you try to open/import a pic?
(take a screenshot of the error msg you see and post it here).

The command:
sudo spctl --master-disable
DOES disable Gatekeeper (as much as it can be disabled).

 

[bogdanw]

I recently changed from a perfectly fine working Mojave to a nightmarish Monterey. (12.6.2)
Not only could I throw nearly a dozen apps in the bin as they just did not want to work anymore,

Probably "32-Bit Apps ...No Longer Working on macOS" https://www.macrumors.com/guide/32-bit-mac-apps/

 

[guido.coza]

OP:

WHERE are the photos that won't open?
Are they on your internal drive?
Are they on a backup or external drive?

What app do you want to open them INTO?
What happens when you try to open/import a pic?
(take a screenshot of the error msg you see and post it here).

The command:
sudo spctl --master-disable
DOES disable Gatekeeper (as much as it can be disabled).

Heyo Fishrrman
I reverted back to Mojave/ Catalina No photos did not matter where, some on the internal some on external. Either tiff or RAW.
I reverted back when I could not open a PDF screen shot I had for month.

It was a similar message just for a Mac bin

As said if S. Jobs would still be around, as much as he was an I@#%@ in many ways, that would just not had happened without consequence. Never thought I would say that, but OS became worse than MS!!!! And that takes some doing.

 

[guido.coza]

Probably "32-Bit Apps ...No Longer Working on macOS" https://www.macrumors.com/guide/32-bit-mac-apps/

NO office for Mac 2019, Adobe PS, transmission, and a few more.
All good, back to Mojave!