How to quarantine plugins that wont run on Mac
Mostly writing this tutorial for myself, but often times if you are testing plugins in beta, or downloading free plugins, you’ll run into scenarios where your DAW will not scan the plugin.
There is a simple fix to this, quarantine!
This can be done in a few short steps steps:
1) copy this code: xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine “/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/DevOceanBridge.component”
2) open terminal
3) paste the code into terminal (do not hit enter)
4) find the plugin vst or component in your file structure
5) right click the file and hod option to select “copy _ as path name”
6) paste the path name between the quotes
7) hit enter
At this point, you may also need to enter your password, otherwise you are free to reset/rescan the plugin.
Chances are your DAW has already set the plugin aside, so you’ll likely need to go in and find it in the plugin settings to reset it.
Other issues may arise, but this has made quite a few plugins actually usable for me. Actually just needed it again today, all you really need to remember is “xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine” and how to copy filepaths, eventually I wont need to reference this article anymore.