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====== Open the Finder Selection Action ======

The Open the Finder Selection action opens the files or folders that are currently selected in the Finder.  

Select the application to open the file.

(!) Note that in Sonoma, if the file has the quarantine bit security feature set (which you can check with the shell command `xattr -p com.apple.quarantine /path/to/file`), then the system API used to open the file with an application will fail with error -128 (user canceled - presumably because the system API does not know how to ask permission). You can remove the security settings with the shell command `xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/file`.

===== See Also =====

=== Actions ===

* [[action:Activate a Specific Application|Activate a Specific Application]]
* [[action:Open a URL|Open a URL]]
* [[:Actions|See all Actions]]

==== Forum ====

- [[https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/the-application-cant-be-opened/34974|“The Application Can’t Be Opened”]]