FreeCAD on macOS Mojave

[drucken]

I found a workaround for the mojave freeze on startup...

Remove FreeCAD.app from macOS Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy tab > Accessibility menu item.

(And click Deny if prompted by macOS to grants FreeCAD access to "whatever it is called" that adds FreeCAD to that list in the first place)

[chrisb]

Added this as another workaround to the known issues.

[csimon]

May I suggest to add this workarounds to the Download/Installations instructions ?

[pkoning2]

I was still seeing this issue on Mac OS 10.14.6 with FreeCAD 0.19-23964. It's really quite nasty because the whole machine freezes for a minute; only the mouse pointer still moves but all other system actions for every window stop.

It happens that I have a developer key, so I tried the codesign --force --deep -s - FreeCAD.app that was suggested earlier. It works nicely.

[zardozer]

I was still seeing this issue on Mac OS 10.14.6 with FreeCAD 0.19-23964. It's really quite nasty because the whole machine freezes for a minute; only the mouse pointer still moves but all other system actions for every window stop.

It happens that I have a developer key, so I tried the codesign --force --deep -s - FreeCAD.app that was suggested earlier. It works nicely.

You can do this codesign command without a developer key, if anyone is reading this. However, this seems to only be a Mojave issue. If you update to Catalina or Big Sur, this codesign command is no longer needed.