{"id":1180,"date":"2012-07-25T08:09:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T08:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2012-07-25T08:10:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T08:10:38","slug":"show-and-remove-download-history-of-all-files-in-10-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=1180","title":{"rendered":"Show and Remove Download History of ALL files in 10.7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mac OS X&#8217;s quarantine feature not only sets a special quarantine bit on files you download &#8211; so it can alert you the first time you open them, and so its built-it anti-malware feature can scan for certain threats &#8211; but it also keeps a list of the files you have downloaded. OS X Daily\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/osxdaily.com\/2012\/07\/12\/list-download-history-mac-os-x\/\">pointed out the command you can run in Terminal<\/a>\u00a0to see the full list of these downloads. Run this command:<\/p>\n<div>\n<pre>\n\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\">sqlite3 ~\/Library\/Preferences\/com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEventsV* 'select LSQuarantineDataURLString from LSQuarantineEvent'<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>The resulting text includes a lot of blank lines, so you might want to sort them to better view them:<\/p>\n<div>\n<pre>\n\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\">sqlite3 ~\/Library\/Preferences\/com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEventsV* 'select LSQuarantineDataURLString from LSQuarantineEvent' | sort<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>To delete this history &#8211; which is a good idea to do from time to time for privacy reasons &#8211; run this command:<\/p>\n<pre>\n\n<div class=\"codecolorer-container text default\" style=\"overflow:auto;white-space:nowrap;\"><div class=\"text codecolorer\">sqlite3 ~\/Library\/Preferences\/com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEventsV* 'delete from LSQuarantineEvent'<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mac OS X&#8217;s quarantine feature not only sets a special quarantine bit on files you download &#8211; so it can alert you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,26,9,7],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info-on-tech","tag-10-7","tag-10-8","tag-lion","tag-osx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}