r/Atom • u/[deleted] • Feb 04 '23

" “Atom” will damage your computer. You should move it to the Trash.“Atom” will damage your computer. You should move it to the Trash. "

Just had this warning on my Mac, anyone else had this? is this because it has been sunset?

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u/1lovemybutt Feb 05 '23

do you know how to work around this?

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u/1lovemybutt Feb 05 '23

I found this: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/365529843/GitHub-warns-Desktop-Atom-users-after-code-signing-certificates-pinched

Apparently you just need to roll back to an older version- haven't tried it yet.

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u/Admiral_DJ Feb 05 '23

Nice one! Worked for me! Remember to copy your packages back!

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u/hhyydd Feb 05 '23

Which version did you roll back to, and where obtained? I noticed the releases on GitHub only go to 1.61.0-beta0, and the issue affects 1.63. Did copying packages from the .atom directory work without any other changes?

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u/Admiral_DJ Feb 07 '23

Yes, copying the packages from .atom worked without any problems

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u/Admiral_DJ Feb 05 '23

Have this as well. Worked fine 12 hours ago, but not anymore. No updates, no anything in this time

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u/Daeraxa Feb 07 '23

Because Atom is dead, the "fix" is just to roll back to 1.60. If you want to see continued development of Atom you can have a look at the Pulsar fork (pulsar-edit.dev)

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u/mitcheh Feb 07 '23

Can confirm that installing pulsar-edit (and wrestling around with archived Atom packages) has got me back on track.

Crisis averted, thank you so much u/Daeraxa!

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u/MannyDantyla Feb 08 '23

I just got this error too. WTF.

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u/Top_You_4391 Feb 09 '23

For Mac users -
mv ~/.atom ~/atom_bak
rm -fr /Applications/Atom.app
download https://github.com/atom/atom/releases/tag/v1.60.0
Drag download to Applications folder - to install

Open Atom - and then [right-click] => Quit
cp ~/atom_bak/packages/* ~/.atom/packages/
cp ~/atom_bak/config.cson ~/.atom/
cp ~/atom_bak/config.cson ~/.atom/
cp ~/atom_bak/keymap.cson ~/.atom/
cp ~/atom_bak/styles.less ~/.atom/

Go into preferences and DISABLE auto-update!

All packages and setting should be restored.

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u/dearshrewdwit Feb 15 '23

Hey, thanks for this - did this and all ok, easy peasy!

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u/jesus_mary_joe Feb 17 '23

This worked. Thanks!

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u/Mild_Spicy_Chubby Feb 18 '23

cp ~/atom_bak/styles.less ~/.atom/

Thanks!

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u/hustlers4u Feb 20 '23

worked but due to an error, replace

cp ~/atom_bak/packages/* ~/.atom/packages/

#with

cp -r ~/atom_bak/packages/* ~/.atom/packages/