"Adobe Premiere Pro 2025.app is damaged and can't be opened" error window

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I updated to 25.5, spent the afternoon working in a new project, closed it, and now I tried opening the project only to get a "Adobe Premiere Pro 2025.app is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the Trash" Luckily, I had not done much work in the project, so I trashed it. THen I uninstalled 25.5 and tried to open 25.4 only to get the same error window. Gotta figure this out bc I have several version 25 projects I need to access. I uninstalled Adobe Createive Cloud then downloaded Premiere version 25.0 and still got the error window. I'm stuck but need to make headway on a new project.

I'm on a Mac Studio M1 Pro/Sequoia 15.4.1

lori_petersen_waite · Answer

Read through previous posts - opened Apple settings > Privacy and Security, scrolled down to Security and there was the "Adobe Premiere Pro 2025.app was blocked to protect your Mac."  Clicked on Open Anyway but it didn't seem like anything took.  I then downloaded the Adobe Creative Cloud cleaner tool, applied it (a couple times) to the newly re-installed 25.4 and finally could open it.  I then updated to 25.5 and no hitch in opening it this time.   In Settings > Privacy and Security, no longer does it appear under "Security_Allow applications from" the "Adobe PPRo 2025 app was blocked" with the OPen Anyway button for whatever reason.

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