Mac app launches slowed by malware scan (2024)

I wonder if this is why Fusion 360 is so slow to start. It's by far the slowest app on my relatively modern M1 MacBook Pro.

EVERYBODY: You can fix the Affinity slow start-up problem on MacOS in a simple step:

Go to your App folder and duplicate the "Affinity Photo 2" app. Then remove the original and use the duplicate.

Now Affinity starts in 2 seconds instead of in 30 seconds on my M3 machine.

But I thought Macs didn't have malware because MacOS is "secure by design."

Author here. It's unclear why HN is interested in this post, because it's just a response to another blogger's recent posts, which weren't even submitted to HN. Visitors aren't going to have the background context.

My original post "Mac app launches slowed by malware scan" was submitted to HN last year, though it received 0 comments at the time. https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/2/3.html