Installation Failed

DanGMF

I recently bought the kontakt 7 bundle for my M2 macbook pro which is running on Ventura 16.0 but i keep stumbling upon the "installation Failed" error when trying to install the stuff inside Native Access. I've already done what the website suggested me to do which is grant full disk access to Native Access and NTKDaemon then restart the computer, but that didn't seem to work for me still. I would really like some help please.

Sunborn

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/20788/installation-failed

Hello,

I assume you are using the new Native Access 2 and not the old Native Access.

Also, as you mention, you followed that article https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016913977-Native-Access-Error-Message-Installation-Failed-Mac- without success, right?

Because many users report the same problem since months, i did a research for it, and found out some interesting info:

1- For some reason, Native Access keeps setting the Applications/Native Instruments folder permissions for everyone, back to "read-only" when it starts up, which then fails the installations. It also occasionally fails on batch library installs, so you have to install one library at a time.

2- Also, it seems that what the official NI article suggest, is not enough, at least on some systems. You also need to grand to NKTDaemon access to Files and Folders.

However, i am on Windows not on Mac so i can not test this solution. Please give it a try, if it's successful it might help lot of other users too.

Btw, this is a problematic development by Native Instruments, since the correct and easy way is to make NKTDaemon to "demand" those rights from the system, immediately after it gets installed.

3- A more permanent solution might lays in System Settings > Users & Groups

If your app installations fail on your Mac, you'll need to ensure you're logged in using an admin account. Standard user accounts don't always have the privilege or permission to install apps. You can simply log out via the main Apple menu and log back in on the correct admin account.

Even better, give your self permanent Admin rights!

I can't understand why people are afraid of this. Whatever warning you might read about this (for both Win and Mac) are totally silly and absolutely ridiculous for a modern user. That might had some value, 20 years ago. Every user must be an Administrator on his own computer.