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Re: I know this is not the right place to ask this buuut.
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Re: I know this is not the right place to ask this buuut.


  • Subject: Re: I know this is not the right place to ask this buuut.
  • From: Ron Hunsinger <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:49:32 -0700

On Jul 25, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Zavatone, Alex wrote:

> I've got 397 text files that I mailed to myself (in a zip) and opened previously in Snow Leopard.
>
> Lion's now asking me if I want to open each one since it came from "the internet".
>
> Does anyone know a way to disable this or use an Applescript to bypass this alert?

Files that are downloaded from the internet are given (by most applications that download such things) a com.apple.quarantine extended attribute. When you open/unpack a container file (.dmg, .zip, etc.), that attribute gets carried across to each contained file. You get the warning message when you open any file with this attribute; dismissing the dialog clears the attribute.

If you still have the .zip file handy, run the Terminal command

	xattr -d com.apple.quarantine path/to/file.zip

and then unpack it again. If you don't have the zip file, but all the messages are in a folder, you can use:

	xattr -d com.apple.quarantine *

(or *.emlx or whatever the extension is) to remove the attribute from a bunch of files.

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