Cursor is damaged and can't be opened

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Trying to download and install the latest version from Cursor - The AI Code Editor but while installing I get the error as shown in the image below. Does anyone know how to get it sorted?

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Thanks,
Levy from https://uzap.ai

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The same is happening for me, macOS Sequoia 15.3 (24D60)

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Hey, thanks for the report. Weā€™re looking into this. I hope weā€™ll fix it soon.

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Found a work around.
Instead of just clicking Download, select all downloads, this will take you to this page Downloads | Cursor - The AI Code Editor
There use Mac Universao instead of ARM.

This solved the issue for me, hope it works for everyone else.

Thanks,
Levy from uzap.ai

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I tried Universal and ARM versions and still doesnā€™t work for me

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same here

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In a Mac, you can do

brew install --cask cursor

to overcome this.

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Iā€™m using Sequoia 15.1, and this solved the issue. Thank you!

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Same thing happened to me. Only reason I uninstalled Cursor was to try and resolve a billing issue (saw a red ā€œBilling Errorā€ box in the bottom left corner, and uninstalling + reinstalling was one of the troubleshooting methods) but now I canā€™t even redownload it :confused:

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Can confirm. It works after updating my mac to Sequoia 15.3.2. I was on Sonoma and ran Cursor 0.45.x

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Same thing happened to me me today.
I was running on 0.45.x, and I needed to upgrade to 0.46x for using MCP servers, but when I downloaded the mac universal package from official site, it gave me the same error.
Installing with brew worked for me

brew install --cask cursor

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Getting this today with both 0.46 and 0.45 DMGs, both Universal and ARM.

$ uname -a
Darwin noahs-MacBook-Pro 24.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.3.0: Thu Jan  2 20:24:24 PST 2025; root:xnu-11215.81.4~3/RELEASE_ARM64_T6030 arm64

Running MacOS Sequoia 15.3.2 (24D81).

brew install workaround worked for me.

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For me it worked to copy the .app to the desktop first and not to Applications directly.

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I also had this issue twice.

Check Activity Monitor for running processes. Thereā€™s a process that remains running after Cursor closes; not sure if thatā€™s intentional, named CursorUIViewService.

Force quit that, then try to drop the file into Applications again. That should solve your issue.

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This was exactly what the issue with my mac was. ( Even though i had uninstalled cursor to re-install it ), the service CursorUIViewService survived the uninstall. A simple fix from cursor team with the service closure on uninstall would fix the issue is what i believe. Thanks mike :slight_smile:

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Any time.

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same here with any possible versions downloaded from the website

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even via brew install --cask cursor it doesnā€™t work:
Error: Failure while executing; /usr/bin/env /usr/bin/xattr -w com.apple.metadata:kMDItemAlternateNames \(\"cursor\"\) /Applications/Cursor.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin/code exited with 1. Hereā€™s the output:
xattr: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: ā€˜/Applications/Cursor.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin/codeā€™

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This have issues

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Happen for me today with 0.48/0.47 on MacOS 15.3.2