Configuring QuickHash on MacOS Mavericks

Using QuickHash on MacOS Mavericks (10.14.2)

Please do not drop OSX support for your app. Unfortunately I'm not a developer, but I was able to test the latest unsigned version (3.0.2) and get it running. Getting the unsigned app to run on OSX Mavericks (10.14.2) is a pretty straight forward process.

1. Download the QuickHash app. and place it in your Downloads directory.
2. Open the downloaded ZIP file and you will find it creates a directory named AppleOSX. Open AppleOSX and you will see the QuickHash app.
3. Open the terminal app and type the following to add the execute permissions to the app:

chmod +x ~/Downloads/AppleOSX/QuickHash.app/Contents/MacOS/QuickHash

4. Close the Terminal app.
5. Using Finder, right-click on the QuickHash app and select View Package Contents.
6. You’ll need to browse down several levels to find the application. First open the Contents Folder, then open the MacOS folder located in the Contents folder and you’ll see the QuickHash file
7. Ctrl-click on the QuickHash app and choose open. You will be given a warning like: “QuickHash” is a Unix app downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?”
8. Select Open to start the app. It will open two windows, one containing a text console, the other containing the application. Go ahead and close both of those windows for now.
9. At this point, the app was added to your security exception list and you will be able to open it just like any other app.
10. Switch back to the Downloads directory then open the AppleOSX directory where you’ll find the QuickHash application
11. You can now launch the QuickHash app as you would any other app. If you’d like, you can now drag the QuickHash app file to your Applications directory so it will always be available for you to execute.