Why do I get a permission denied error message referring to folder when installing MATLAB on Macbook?

After installing the Matlab in macbook and run LeadDBS into it, I'm dealing with this problem:

bash: /Users/Documents/MATLAB/lead/ext_libs/ANTs/antsRegistration.maci64: Permission denied

bash: /Users/Documents/MATLAB/lead/ext_libs/ANTs/antsApplyTransforms.maci64: Permission denied

[Joyce Yamamoto]

I've already configurated my machine to accept other programms than those from apple store.

[Jan]

What exactly does "run LeadDBS" mean? The installer? The setup? The function?

[Walter Roberson]

Those are shared objects that need to be called from inside matlab, but instead they are being executed as if they were external executable programs or external shell scripts.

[Arthur Buijink]

@Joyce Yamamoto how did you solve this issue? I'm getting the same errors using Lead in Matlab R2021a on MacOs 13 Ventura:

.../lead/ext_libs/BRAINSTools/BRAINSFit.maci64: Permission denied

[Walter Roberson]

Is it running an installation script at the time? If so then it could be indicating that the script is trying to write to the indicated destinations in unusual ways, using I/O redirection directly within the shell script (if it was trying to copy or move a file into a destination that did not have write access, then the message would include "mv" or "cp")

Example that can cause a message of that type:

system('bash -c "echo > /Password.m"')

bash: /Password.m: Permission denied

ans = 1

This kind of code would not typically appear inside a shell script, except for the case that some kind of output log file is being created to be appended to later. Code such as

system('bash -c "cp antsRegistration.maci64 ~/MATLAB/lead/ext_libs/ANTs/"')

would generate an error message that looked like

cp: /Users/Documents/MATLAB/lead/ext_libs/ANTs/antsRegistration.maci64: Permission denied

not bash:

[yannick LONGUET]

Did you solved the problem ?

I have exactly the same problem with Matlab2022b and lead DBS 2.6

[yannick LONGUET]

I found the answer, you can write :

system(['find "', ea_getearoot, '" -type f -name "*maci64" -exec chmod 755 {} \;']);

system(['find "', ea_getearoot, '" -type f -name "*maci64" -exec xattr -cr {} \;']);

system(['find "', fileparts(which('spm')), '" -type f -name "*maci64" -exec xattr -cr {} \;']);

system(['find "', ea_getearoot, '" -type d -name "*.app" -exec xattr -cr {} \;']);

in the command window

[Qiong]

@yannick LONGUET Thank you very much! This solves the problem perfectly.