Features of Fiberworks for Mac

Installing Fiberworks on Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, OS X 10.10 Yosemite or 10.11 El Capitan

How to bypass Gatekeeper

In the latest releases of Mac OS X, version 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.10 Yosemite and 10.11 El Capitan, Apple has added a security feature called Gatekeeper. Gatekeeper is intended to protect your Mac from malware by blocking the launching of applications from unknown sources. Gatekeeper works on any application that has been downloaded from the Internet.

Gatekeeper has three levels of security, which you choose in the Security and Privacy section of System Preferences:

The top level only allows applications downloaded from the Mac App store.

The middle level allows Mac App Store and applications from identified developers.

The lowest level allows you to launch apps from anywhere. Obviously this is less secure, although it represents the same level of security that you had on OS X 10.7 Lion.

Fiberworks is in the process of obtaining an Apple Developer Identity, which will satisfy the middle security level of Gatekeeper. However the current versions available on the website do not include an Apple Identity, and so will be blocked from launching on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.9 Mavericks or 10.10 Yosemite

In order to open and install the Fiberworks download files FiberworksSilver115.dmg or FiberworksBronze107.dmg, you need to temporarily set Gatekeeper to its lowest level.

Download Silver or Bronze from our website. The file FiberworksSilver115.dmg or FiberworksBronze107.dmg can then be found in your Downloads folder, but can't be opened until you do the following:

In the Apple Menu on your Mac, choose System Preferences
In the Personal layer of System Preferences, click on the icon for Security and Privacy
Choose the General tab, and click the lock at bottom left open to allow changes.

Choose the Anywhere setting and confirm when it queries you.
Now you can click on the icon for the downloaded file, and it will open as a folder.

Silver contains Fiberworks.app, Fiberworks manual.pdf, loom-manual.pdf, ReadMeFirstSilverPlus.pdf and a folder of samples called My Weaving

Bronze contains Bronze.app, Bronze Manual.pdf, ReadMeFirst1.pdf and a folder of samples called My Weaving.

The ReadMeFirst file contains installation instructions.

To launch a newly downloaded copy of Fiberworks do the following:
Right click or Control-Click on the Fiberworks icon.
A menu appears - choose Open from this Menu.
This forces the application to launch.
Once you have done this, Gatekeeper remembers that you chose to launch Fiberworks, and should no longer block future launches.
When you are satisfied that Fiberworks is not blocked from launching, reopen your Security and Privacy panel, and you may set your desired level of security, usually the middle level.

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