{"id":146,"date":"2010-06-11T07:32:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T07:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=146"},"modified":"2010-06-11T07:32:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T07:32:40","slug":"completely-disable-apples-quarantine-of-downloaded-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Completely disable Apple&#8217;s quarantine of downloaded files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting in Leopard (I believe) when you open a file downloaded from the web, OS X asks if you <em>really <\/em>mean it. While it is intended to stop maliciousness, it is only a source of aggravation for me. While there are some hints here on working around it, it turns out that you can disable it completely using a Terminal command:<\/p>\n<pre>defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO<\/pre>\n<p>After that, reboot, and you should be set. (If you want to disable quarantine for files already downloaded, you can run this in 10.6:<\/p>\n<pre>xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine ~\/Downloads<\/pre>\n<p>In 10.5, you need to use this instead:<\/p>\n<pre>find ~\/Downloads -type df -exec xattr -d com.apple.quarantine {}<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting in Leopard (I believe) when you open a file downloaded from the web, OS X asks if you really mean it. [&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":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info-on-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","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=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}