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After 2 years I thought I should come back and give it another go, and I have found a fix! This will exclude all the stuff in 'CDP-InstallationNotesMac.pdf' for simplicity's sake.

Firstly, make sure Terminal has Full Disk Access in System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Full Disk Access.

Fully quit Terminal and then try to tun the cdp8install.command again, making sure to bypass the Apple automatic prevention thing in Privacy and Security. If this doesn't work, I also had to do the following:

Open terminal and run the following commands:
mkdir -p ~/tmp
chmod 777 ~/tmp

When I installed it this time around I had another issue with the Home Directory 'tmp' folder as well, but doing the above steps also seemed to fix the bash_profile problem as well, maybe because of the Full Disk Access. I then opened up Soundloom and proceeded to bypass all the automatic Apple prevention popups for each process, and it seems to be working now.

Thank you for the reply, I was starting to think I was on my own here haha. I'm afraid I haven't got any further really - the only way I can change the error message is by moving the self-made .bash_profile outside of its recommended path, and straight into the home directory. The error message then becomes:

CDP Install script copyfile: Error opening outfile /Users/x/tmp/bprof-backup.txt
CDP Install script ERROR: failed to backup .bash_profile.

I'm using an M1 Macbook Air with the latest OS, so I originally thought it could have something to do with that, but from your comment it would seem otherwise. The only other thing that I've thought of is the 'xattr -rc' command mentioned in the manual installation document, and the issue therefore being something to do with permissions, but what exactly to do with them is unknown to me. That's all from me for now; I'll keep searching though.

Hiya everyone. I've been trying to install CDP today and run into a few issues. Once moving the cdpr8 folder into my home directory, running cdp8install.command gives me this message:

x@x's-MacBook-Air ~ % /Users/x/cdpr8/cdp8install.command ; exit;
CDP Install script: Mode 1.
CDP Install script ERROR: unable to create new .bash_profile.

Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.

[Process completed]

Just in case you're wondering, I've replaced any username information with an 'x'.

I've tried a few fixes to this:
In the Manual Configuration document, it states that, after typing 'env' into a new Terminal, 'If PATH already includes the above CDP path,    we are good to go'. When I type env into a terminal, the correct path does indeed appear, yet I'm clearly not 'good to go'. Regardless of this, I tested out creating my own .bash_profile file as via the Manual Config doc. Depending on where I install the .bash_profile file in my home directory, the 'ls -la' command also displays it, yet the installation command still doesn't work, and the error message remains the same.

Any ideas as to why this might be? Thanks