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What is Gatekeeper, and where can I see it?

Look in Activity Monitor or the log, and you won’t find anything named Gatekeeper, is its a team of different systems, each of which can work on its own. Here’s the detail and a diagram.

May 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Pratique version 1.0 released to fix document quarantine woes

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First full release version, which conforms to macOS clearance convention, and lets you know which flags it has changed.

May 11, 2019 Macs, Technology

Finder security errors opening documents: a summary

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How this occurs, why, and what to do to manage the problem when it affects you. Complete with a visual summary and references.

May 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

Apple does provide a workaround for document quarantine errors

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Try using this workaround: it requires quick actions, and despite Apple’s promise, it only works until you next save the document.

May 6, 2019 Macs, Technology

An alternative approach to document quarantine problems: Pratique

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This utility changes quarantine flags on documents as if XProtect had checked and cleared them, so they work normally again. First beta.

May 6, 2019 Macs, Technology

Sandstrip tackles your document quarantine problems

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Full release of Sandstrip, a utility to remove the quarantine flags attached to documents by sandboxed apps.

May 6, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Finder lost

How a security feature trying to block malicious documents has rendered a Finder feature useless, causing users and developers problems.

May 5, 2019 Macs, Technology

Documents from an unidentified developer: quarantine misbehaviour in the log

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.

May 4, 2019 Macs, Technology

Serious flaw in macOS: quarantine can stop you from opening documents

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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?

May 3, 2019 Macs, Technology

🎗 Quarantine: Documents

Second of two, here looking at quarantine of documents, what it means, how it occurs. Much more common than apps, but mysterious.

April 26, 2019 Macs, Technology, xattr

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