El Capitan incompatible with Mad Catz Editor

I upgraded my Macbook Pro to OSX 10.11 El Capitan but sadly the mapping software for my Mad Catz Mouse (M.M.O.7) does not start anymore.

Crash Report

Process:               editor [33209]
Path:                  /Applications/Mad Catz Editor.app/Contents/MacOS/editor
Identifier:            com.madcatz.MadCatz.editor
Version:               1.0 (1.1.69)
Code Type:             X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:        ??? [1]
Responsible:           editor [33209]
User ID:               501

Date/Time:             2015-10-07 13:41:42.846 +0200
OS Version:            Mac OS X 10.11 (15A284)
Report Version:        11
Anonymous UUID:        8B5B6605-7448-4DDA-627C-11145BEF80FE

Sleep/Wake UUID:       4D337680-5145-4CF7-B785-93E78B39BE4D

Time Awake Since Boot: 100000 seconds
Time Since Wake:       17000 seconds

System Integrity Protection: enabled

Crashed Thread:        0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:        EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes:       0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Exception Note:        EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY

Application Specific Information:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[MCProfile profile]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x10042c350'
abort() called
terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException

Application Specific Backtrace 1:
0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8b3a7bd2 __exceptionPreprocess + 178
1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007fff866ac4fa objc_exception_throw + 48
2   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8b4110ed -[NSObject(NSObject) doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 205
3   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8b3183d1 ___forwarding___ + 1009
4   CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff8b317f58 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 120
5   MCDeviceLib.dylib                   0x0000000100041587 -[MCProfile checkName] + 119

The result is that I have a lot of hovering problem (hover event does not fire anymore) and shortcuts macros do not work at all.

Does anyone have a workaround ?

I contacted the Mad Catz team via Facebook and Twitter 2 days ago and I still have no answer.

Solution 1:

I'm having the same issue, in a chat with Madcatz support they stated to come up with a new driver by end of this year - still a bit to suffer unfortunately.

Installing USB overdrive and controller mate are too much for me to achieve a little bump in functionality.

Solution 2:

Because of the new security implemented in El Capitan (see here), and if Mad Katz installs stuff in protected directories (such as /usr/bin), chances are the upgrade hosed the mouse. Look in

/Library/SystemMigration/History/Migration-something-about-your-computer/QuarantineRoot

and see if there is anything about the mouse. This is likely, especially if the mouse required a kernel extension to actually function. In this case you have to wait until Mad Katz release a compatible upgrade... or you might want to disable the extra protection and reinstate the kernel extension.