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Category Archive: Macs
This utility changes quarantine flags on documents as if XProtect had checked and cleared them, so they work normally again. First beta.
Full release of Sandstrip, a utility to remove the quarantine flags attached to documents by sandboxed apps.
How a security feature trying to block malicious documents has rendered a Finder feature useless, causing users and developers problems.
Two sets of log excerpts demonstrate how macOS can prevent a user from opening a document, then mislead them into thinking it’s the app at fault.
You double-click to open a document, and see a security alert telling you it’s from an unidentified developer and your security settings prohibit opening. What the hell?
One of the more confusing features of PDF apps, as none seems to work quite the same, and removing them isn’t quick or simple.
Apple has pushed two updates overnight, to the ‘Yara’ data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number […]
TextEdit will happily trash an HTML file when you convert it to text – without any good reason, other than an engineer not being familiar with macOS.
Presenting two or more versions of the same text close together is a challenge. Here’s how I arrived at one solution, and implemented it.
The Eclectic Light Company 