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"Inventoryx86.framework" cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified

Got a Safety Message. What it reads:

""Inventoryx86.framework" cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified

macOS cannot verify that this app is free from malware.

afari downloaded this file yesterday at 3:56"

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Screenshot 1: Error Message


Screenshot 2: All I Could Find on the Web: Student Macbooks hardware details - Sugar Labs. Found by Googling: "Inventoryx86.framework"+"cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified"


Screenshot 3: Booting a Mepis Live CD on a Windows 7 Virtual Machine


Screenshot 4: Mepis Live CD Loading on a Windows 7 Virtual Machine



I made a Virtual Machine isolated, and did not get the error. Last Night it


I got this error, and have no clue as to what Safari would have downloaded from a VM. There is nothing in the downloads.


Any thoughts?


Error Message

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All I Could Find on the Web:

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Booting a Mepis Live CD on a Windows 7 Virtual Machine

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Mepis Live CD Loading on a Windows 7 Virtual Machine


MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.15

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Posted on Jan 22, 2020 7:14 AM

If you had eliminated the name of the framework from the error search, you’d have gotten some hits. Lots more hits. Whatever this is, it’s seemingly not commonly used. As for the Windows references, those are not relevant here.


Here’s the OpenOffice.org FAQ text on this topic:


“Q05: The Gatekeeper won't let me run OpenOffice. I get the message below. How do I proceed?

"Openoffice.org" can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer.

A05: In Finder use Go (menu) → Applications. If you can't find OpenOffice.app in that folder see Q03/A03. Hold the Control key and click OpenOffice.app, then select Open. After you've opened it once, Gatekeeper will allow it to run in the future. If you receive the error "OSStatus error 99999" see Q49/A49. Apple changes MacOS regularly and it's possible that Gatekeeper will change in future releases. If so, consult Apple's documentation and search for current Gatekeeper procedures. Also, remember that you are expected to read the release notes for OpenOffice in Q03.”


Here’s another case:

Can't run crc setup on macOS Catalina - "the developer cannot be verified" #836



Using the xattr command-line command and removing the quarantine flag can also resolve some of these cases.


There’s also a good chance that code from ~11 years ago just won’t work on a more recent macOS version. I would doubt that code this old would launch correctly on macOS Catalina, for instance.

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Jan 22, 2020 7:14 AM in response to TheLittles

If you had eliminated the name of the framework from the error search, you’d have gotten some hits. Lots more hits. Whatever this is, it’s seemingly not commonly used. As for the Windows references, those are not relevant here.


Here’s the OpenOffice.org FAQ text on this topic:


“Q05: The Gatekeeper won't let me run OpenOffice. I get the message below. How do I proceed?

"Openoffice.org" can't be opened because it is from an unidentified developer.

A05: In Finder use Go (menu) → Applications. If you can't find OpenOffice.app in that folder see Q03/A03. Hold the Control key and click OpenOffice.app, then select Open. After you've opened it once, Gatekeeper will allow it to run in the future. If you receive the error "OSStatus error 99999" see Q49/A49. Apple changes MacOS regularly and it's possible that Gatekeeper will change in future releases. If so, consult Apple's documentation and search for current Gatekeeper procedures. Also, remember that you are expected to read the release notes for OpenOffice in Q03.”


Here’s another case:

Can't run crc setup on macOS Catalina - "the developer cannot be verified" #836



Using the xattr command-line command and removing the quarantine flag can also resolve some of these cases.


There’s also a good chance that code from ~11 years ago just won’t work on a more recent macOS version. I would doubt that code this old would launch correctly on macOS Catalina, for instance.

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Jan 22, 2020 1:26 PM in response to MrHoffman

Thank you for the reply. To clarify a few things:


Read more on my current Virtual Machine install here: Boot a Virtual Machine Off of a Live CD - Apple Communities


  • Open Office: I don't use Open Office at the moment, though, I most certainly have in the recent past. With everything changing (64-Bit only), I think I'd stay away from running (what might be) an olde-school Terminal command, whether modifying it or not.


  • Quarantine - I ran Spybot Search and Destroy on the Virtual Machine, prior to using Mepis. Point Being: I would think the VM - not the Live CD - is the culprit. Spybot Search and Destroy is not intended for Macs. Having gotten that popup message, the VM was non-isolated, so it probably scanned the Mac somehow. That's why I reinstalled the VM: So I could make it isolated this-time-around, and avoid conflicts of data affected by a scan. Now there is no error that pops up. So, I assume the VM did, indeed, not scan the Mac this-time-around. Hence, nothing was affected.


  • Direction of Data Transfer: I created a Guest User on this Mac, being that I would run a Live CD off of a Virtual Machine off of a Mac. With all being said, that may be why I got had that issue: everything on the Mac being accessible to the Live CD
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