I have a brand new iMAC mini with M4 Pro chip. It will not let me load Topaz Photo AI. I have downloaded it twice with the same result. The error message reads
“Topaz Photo Al.app” is damaged and can’t be opened.
You should move it to the Trash.
This file was downloaded on an unknown date.
Cancel
Move to Trash
Try the right-click>Open trick.
If that doesn’t work, the internet says:
When an application gets downloaded from any source other than those that Apple seems suited, the application gets an extended attribute “com.apple.Quarantine”. This triggers the message: “ is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Bin.”
Remove the attribute and you can launch the application.
To do this, open a console and type:
$ xattr -c <path/to/application.app>
[You can drag Photo AI to Terminal to get the needed path]
Good news. I could not find the console you mentioned, however, in system settings / privacy I found Topaz sitting there saying it was unknown and blocked, but I just clicked on open anyway, and I was in.
thank you as your message gave me the idea that it was apple security causing the issue. It is now working as expected.
Ken
Very good! Never give up on Topaz 
You can find Terminal via the magnifying glass at upper right of your screen or in Applications>Utilities.
True. Then again…I’ve never really found one that was…I suppose it could be possible, but then a software developer would have to stop creating new features and the platform they run on would have to stop changing code as well.
The release was pushed a few days as they are working on the last fixes. I will get a new ETA from the development team tomorrow as today is MLK Holiday. Will reply here when I do!
Correction. Topaz staff are off today! I wish people would write prolerpy. 
Are I ain’t using grammar good?
That’s a lot better! . 
Where is that? Must be another planet - at least I have never seen such creatures on earth …
Hope staff will come back to earth after MLK day 
Not sure about this - “staff” is a singular collective noun and at least for American English it seems that one can (esp. these days) use it with either singular or plural verbs to some extent depending on context. For what it’s worth, I’m in the US, tend to use “staff” with “is” but refer to the staff where I work as “we.”
The Topaz Staff had today off, and the members of the Topaz Staff were off too.
All good fun but nobody picked up on my deliberate spelling mistake on my first reply. So I is, are, am winner on points. Yah boo sucks to the lot of you! 
Yeah, this is what happens when we don’t have a new version to complain about…
Just a bit of fun David. No offence intended. I am quite happy with Topaz Photo Ai and have no real complaints. 
Hi Robert, I understand (and should have appended a smiley face in my last comment). I also think regional language is a bit like regional food - I’ve lived in the NW, midwest, mid-Atlantic, and SE US, and what is considered proper bbq and chili, e.g., differs considerably from place to place.
To get back partly on-topic, I’m still wrestling especially with AI sharpen and where the line is between sharpening my image and guessing what’s there based on (and possibly incorporating parts of) other people’s images, especially as pertains to fur/feathers and heavy sharpening/refocus.
Ive just bought the licence, Ive downloaded v3.0.0, tried to download the latest version but the link is not working? Is there any updated link?
Ive tried to use the denoise but sadly it didn’t work.
is this normal ?!
Did you use the link given in the first post of this thread?
I just tried and they both work…
