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"Broken" Files for Books 1 & 2

A topic by Rank Tyro created Nov 17, 2024 Views: 178 Replies: 4

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Rank Tyro289 days ago

I finished Books 1, 2, and 3 on Steam. I decided it would be nice to download the game outside of Steam, too, so I could replay it straight off the hard drive. So I bought the bundle (with Morningstar) here on itch.io. But every time I download and extract Book 1 or Book 2, it tells me the file is broken and belongs in the trash. Oddly, I don't have this problem with Book 3 or Morningstar. Those files open just fine. I also became a Normie on Patreon, downloading Books 1–3 and Morningstar on a variety of platforms over there. The same deal happened — Books 1 & 2 are allegedly broken, but Book 3 and Morningstar play just fine. Everything still plays fine on Steam. It's weird. Got any suggestions beyond "keep using Steam"?

droid productionsDeveloper289 days ago

If this is Mac, it's because they're downloaded from the net and not signed from a mac:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253714860?sortBy=rank
(A s dev, I *really* feel the "@Apple: You certainly MUST know this. Why don't you hand it to your customers?" part. )

Rank Tyro288 days ago

Ooh, yes it is. Apple is definitely being a poopy butt. Thanks for the link. I'll play around with the Terminal in a second.

kevtron82152 days ago

- For OSX, you may need to give chmod +x permissions to make the application run. | chmod +x Love of Magic.app/Contents/MacOS/*

and remove the Quarantine flag ("This application is damaged")

| xattr -c Love of Magic.app

I've tried both of those things in my terminal, and just dragging the app over so that it gets the path correct, but I'm still getting the same 'cannot be opened' error :(

droid productionsDeveloper152 days ago

Someone wrote up a better explanation for the process here:
https://loveofmagic.fandom.com/wiki/Technical#MAC_Permissions_Issues

See if that helps.