# Cursor is damaged and can't be opened **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug Reports\ **Created:** [March 4, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272 "2025-03-04T19:44:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![levymoreira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/levymoreira/32/32860_2.png) [@levymoreira](https://forum.cursor.com/u/levymoreira)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 7:44pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/1 "2025-03-04T19:44:52Z")
Trying to download and install the latest version from [Cursor - The AI Code Editor](https://www.cursor.com/en) but while installing I get the error as shown in the image below. Does anyone know how to get it sorted? ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/1/e/1ed3b02532f07cfb2bdc1aaea5cf2c36b01c64a5.jpeg) Thanks, Levy from [https://uzap.ai](https://uzap.ai) ---
**Author:** ![merksam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/merksam/32/32916_2.png) [@merksam](https://forum.cursor.com/u/merksam)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2025, 11:04pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/2 "2025-03-04T23:04:40Z")
The same is happening for me, macOS Sequoia 15.3 (24D60) ---
**Author:** ![deanrie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/deanrie/32/1263_2.png) [@deanrie](https://forum.cursor.com/u/deanrie)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/4 "2025-03-05T12:32:08Z")
Hey, thanks for the report. We’re looking into this. I hope we’ll fix it soon. ---
**Author:** ![levymoreira](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/levymoreira/32/32860_2.png) [@levymoreira](https://forum.cursor.com/u/levymoreira)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/5 "2025-03-05T16:49:44Z")
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](https://www.cursor.com/downloads) There use Mac Universao instead of ARM. This solved the issue for me, hope it works for everyone else. Thanks, Levy from [uzap.ai](https://uzap.ai/) ---
**Author:** ![merksam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/merksam/32/32916_2.png) [@merksam](https://forum.cursor.com/u/merksam)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/6 "2025-03-05T17:09:41Z")
I tried Universal and ARM versions and still doesn’t work for me ---
**Author:** ![dchersey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/dchersey/32/19877_2.png) [@dchersey](https://forum.cursor.com/u/dchersey)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/7 "2025-03-05T17:44:10Z")
same here ---
**Author:** ![jsalvasoler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/jsalvasoler/32/33277_2.png) [@jsalvasoler](https://forum.cursor.com/u/jsalvasoler)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/8 "2025-03-05T19:52:19Z")
In a Mac, you can do `brew install --cask cursor` to overcome this. ---
**Author:** ![eryzerz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/eryzerz/32/33497_2.png) [@eryzerz](https://forum.cursor.com/u/eryzerz)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2025, 8:50am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/9 "2025-03-06T08:50:46Z")
I’m using Sequoia 15.1, and this solved the issue. Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![gradyotto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@gradyotto](https://forum.cursor.com/u/gradyotto)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/10 "2025-03-07T03:15:44Z")
Same thing happened to me. Only reason I uninstalled Cursor was to try and resolve a billing issue (saw a red “Billing Error” box in the bottom left corner, and uninstalling + reinstalling was one of the troubleshooting methods) but now I can’t even redownload it 😕 ---
**Author:** ![vnguyen972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/vnguyen972/32/26513_2.png) [@vnguyen972](https://forum.cursor.com/u/vnguyen972)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2025, 5:42am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/11 "2025-03-13T05:42:17Z")
Can confirm. It works after updating my mac to Sequoia 15.3.2. I was on Sonoma and ran Cursor 0.45.x ---
**Author:** ![apperside](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/apperside/32/36867_2.png) [@apperside](https://forum.cursor.com/u/apperside)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 5:37am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/12 "2025-03-16T05:37:40Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![noahlt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/noahlt/32/11126_2.png) [@noahlt](https://forum.cursor.com/u/noahlt)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2025, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/13 "2025-03-16T17:49:03Z")
Getting this today with both 0.46 and 0.45 DMGs, both Universal and ARM. ```auto $ 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. ---
**Author:** ![s3n](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@s3n](https://forum.cursor.com/u/s3n)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/14 "2025-03-19T20:08:34Z")
For me it worked to copy the .app to the desktop first and not to Applications directly. ---
**Author:** ![mikes-bowden](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/mikes-bowden/32/28648_2.png) [@mikes-bowden](https://forum.cursor.com/u/mikes-bowden)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/15 "2025-03-19T20:36:08Z")
I also had this issue twice. Check `Activity Monitor` for running processes. There’s a process that remains running after Cursor closes; not sure if that’s intentional, named `CursorUIViewService`. Force quit that, then try to drop the file into Applications again. That should solve your issue. ---
**Author:** ![sudo-ping-pong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/sudo-ping-pong/32/38536_2.png) [@sudo-ping-pong](https://forum.cursor.com/u/sudo-ping-pong)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 9:37pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/16 "2025-03-19T21:37:10Z")
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 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mikes-bowden](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/mikes-bowden/32/28648_2.png) [@mikes-bowden](https://forum.cursor.com/u/mikes-bowden)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/17 "2025-03-19T21:49:15Z")
Any time. ---
**Author:** ![wonderg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/wonderg/32/38683_2.png) [@wonderg](https://forum.cursor.com/u/wonderg)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/18 "2025-03-20T05:32:58Z")
same here with any possible versions downloaded from the website ---
**Author:** ![wonderg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/wonderg/32/38683_2.png) [@wonderg](https://forum.cursor.com/u/wonderg)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 5:35am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/19 "2025-03-20T05:35:35Z")
even via brew install --cask cursor it doesn’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. Here’s the output: xattr: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: ‘/Applications/Cursor.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin/code’ ---
**Author:** ![Sophanos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/sophanos/32/41452_2.png) [@Sophanos](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Sophanos)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 11:02am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/20 "2025-03-29T11:02:00Z")
This have issues ---
**Author:** ![insider89](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/insider89/32/43926_2.png) [@insider89](https://forum.cursor.com/u/insider89)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 9:18am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272/21 "2025-04-03T09:18:41Z")
Happen for me today with 0.48/0.47 on MacOS 15.3.2 [Next page](https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-is-damaged-and-cant-be-opened/59272.md?page=2)