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Re: opening PowerPoint presentation without bringing to front?
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Re: opening PowerPoint presentation without bringing to front?


  • Subject: Re: opening PowerPoint presentation without bringing to front?
  • From: Bruce Carter <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:13:27 -0400
  • Acceptlanguage: en-US
  • Thread-topic: opening PowerPoint presentation without bringing to front?

That's it, xattr.  For some reason that keeps flying out of my brain bank.
I should print it out and tape it to the wall.


On 8/13/09 3:55 PM, "Laine Lee" <email@hidden> wrote:

> On 8/13/09 2:09 PM, "Bruce Carter" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> There are other ways to
>> manipulate that quarantine information as well
>
> Thanks! I found the following pretty quickly.
> http://henrik.nyh.se/2007/10/lift-the-leopard-download-quarantine
>
> So prepending this construct to the script in question might also prevent
> the appearance of the unwanted warning.
>
> tell application "Finder"
>     set anapp to application file id "PPT3" as Unicode text
> end tell
>
> do shell script "xattr -d com.apple.quarantine" & space & (quoted form of
> (POSIX path of anapp))

--
Bruce Carter, Senior Systems Engineer            http://www.nd.edu/~bcarter/
Center for Creative Computing, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame,IN 46556

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