What should I do about com.apple.quarantine?
Problem
I've downloaded some files from the internet and want to use them under Mac OS X. But the OS seems to have tagged them with the extended attribute com.apple.quarantine (no indication of this until I noticed the " " in the and figured out how to use ) -- apparently because they have been downloaded from the internet. What's the right way to deal with this?
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Fix for: What should I do about com.apple.quarantine?
You don't have to deal with it. Open it and OS X will ask for your permission. Or like richard suggested, delete it using something like: To do this automatically for any downloaded file you can attach a folder action to the download folder, like described on macosxhints.com in 10.5: Remove the 'downloaded file' warning flag. And the following was posted on macosxhints.com a long time ago, for Safari: 10.5: Disable the 'downloaded from internet' file warning, claiming one can remove from . I di…
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