Re: Download Alert -- Quarantine information removal
Re: Download Alert -- Quarantine information removal
- Subject: Re: Download Alert -- Quarantine information removal
- From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 00:29:37 -0500
On Dec 2, 2009, at 12:14 AM, Stephen J. Butler wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Sravana Kumar <email@hidden> wrote:
>> When did some analysis I found that file system keeps Quarantine information
>> in the extended attributes along with the files and shows this alert.
>> xattr -d com.apple.quarantine <filepath> will remove this.
>>
>> But I am writing an installer and I am coping files from the downloaded dmg
>> to the system and system is keeping this info for all the files I copy.
>> Eventually I am getting this alert. I tried different methods to copy files
>> but no success.
>
> Your files are inheriting the quarantine attribute from the DMG. So
> remove it from the DMG before you attach, and you won't have to remove
> it when you copy files.
this is a terrible idea.
the quarantine is there for a reason. It shouldn’t be bypassed.
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