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🎗 Quarantine: Apps

First of two articles – this looking at how quarantine works for apps and other executables, details of the flag itself, how it behaves, and more.

April 25, 2019 Macs, Technology

Sandstrip removes spurious quarantine flags

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A simple utility to remove the many quarantine flags which are written when sandboxed apps open movies, PDF, JPEG and other files, and can cause problems.

April 22, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: App Store graffiti

Do we really need tens of thousands of spurious quarantine flags attached to perfectly good documents?

April 21, 2019 Macs, Technology

Sandboxing makes quarantine flags almost meaningless

How the quarantine flag for apps and that for docs opened in sandboxed apps differ, and why there are now so many quarantine flags to trip us up.

April 15, 2019 Macs, Technology

Why all those quarantine flags?

Have you noticed quarantine flags appearing on movies and PDFs which have never been downloaded? Here’s a possible explanation.

April 13, 2019 Macs, Technology, xattr

How does notarization affect your own apps and scripts?

Apple’s latest information on notarization can appear alarming and contradictory. Do you need to notarize your own apps and scripts? More helpful guidance.

April 12, 2019 Macs, Technology

Macs move closer to compulsory notarization

Apple has just warned developers that rules on notarization will change in macOS 10.14.5. Will users be affected?

April 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Is XProtect dead, or about to be replaced?

XProtect’s data files haven’t been updated since 13 March 2018 – a period of 120 days. Is it being replaced in Mojave? What happens to those still using High Sierra and earlier?

July 22, 2018 Macs, Technology

When you can’t get macOS to forget

The greatest skill in memory is not the remembering, but knowing what to forget – something that macOS is useless at. Why doesn’t it clear out its old crud?

July 4, 2018 Macs, Technology

Further improvements in xattred 1.0b3, the extended attribute editor

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The File menu has been tidied, and xattred can now save the one xattr selected or all of them to a text file.

January 31, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

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