Security work-around

“Disabling” Launch Services File Quarantine is a blessing. Every time I get a zip file from N+S for the Admissions site I have to click “OK” to the security pop-up message for every file—not just the zip. Using Terminal and BBEdit’s Disk Browser I was able to run a bunch of commands to “de-quarantine” the files before I opened them, saving a lot of clicking.

The only way to prevent this dialog from appearing is to remove this attribute, which can easily be done by doing the following from the Terminal:xattr - d com.apple.quarantine Downloads/Bean-Install.dmg

Take out the space between the – and d—WordPress wants to change that to a tag.

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