After a number of makes an attempt, the answer I discovered was to run SPSS with sudo from the terminal:
sudo -b "/Functions/IBM SPSS Statistics/SPSS Statistics.app/Contents/MacOS/stats"
To facilitate the execution of SPSS on this situation, it’s handy to create a shell script that may be executed by double-clicking on it in Finder (a .command file). To create the script in your Desktop, observe these steps:
- Open Terminal
cd ~/Desktop
echo 'sudo -b "/Functions/IBM SPSS Statistics/SPSS Statistics.app/Contents/MacOS/stats"' > SPSS.command
chmod a+x SPSS.command
Now you’ll be able to double-click the file SPSS.command
, enter your password and SPSS will open.