A new drag-and-drop app to change quarantine extended attributes on documents, so enabling you to double-click them to open when they won’t otherwise.
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Double-clicking a document to open it in its editor is quintessentially Mac, yet for the last nearly 7 years it could result in a bizarre dialog and refusal. Does any of this make sense?
Preview commonly refuses to open PDF documents. This explains why, and how you can work around its bizarre errors and warnings.
New app to analyse, display and give direct access to the contents of clipping files, including textClipping and pictClipping files created by the Finder.
Verify that the app doesn’t change file extended attributes, discover why false flags result from updating apps in place, check who has been changing your preferences, and how to add App Store apps to Provenance tracking.
A new app to check files for Providence IDs and Quarantine information, so providing info about the origin and recent edit history of those files.
By default, quarantine xattrs aren’t attached to new files created by an app. That behaviour is controlled by a setting in their Info.plist, and can be overridden in an Exceptions property list.
Why do so many files now have quarantine and other extended attributes, although they’re not apps, and may never have left that Mac?
When someone reports the most recent version of Safari that will open their webarchives is 18.6, and that’s the only version that you find can’t open some webarchives. You’ll be only too familiar with the culprit.
Whether a quarantined and notarized app undergoes translocation, Tahoe doesn’t run XProtect checks to determine if it’s malicious. And how to tell when an app is running from translocation.
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