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What to do when you can’t launch an app

With recent privacy protection, notarization requirements, and extended checking of executable code, it’s getting more common for an app not to launch. What can you do when that happens?

June 17, 2019 Macs, Technology

Three updates to make updating easier: T2M2, xattred, Revisionist

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Three apps in new versions which automatically check for updates, and will download them for you when you wish.

June 5, 2019 Macs, Technology

xattred the GUI extended attribute editor reaches version 1.0 at last

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Brings a new Stripper tool to remove xattrs in bulk, extensive Help, and a code integrity check.

May 13, 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

🎗 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

xattred & cmpxat Support

This page is for your support questions and comments on my free extended attribute editor xattred, and my […]

April 22, 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

New versions of Cirrus and xattred

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Small changes in tables which allow you to navigate using the cursor keys – but should greatly improve their usability. Recommended for all users.

November 27, 2018 Macs, Technology

Which apps for Mojave?

Natural language parsing, privacy exploring, update investigating, xattr-tweaking, iCloud poking, log browsing: they’re all here for Mojave.

September 24, 2018 Macs, Technology

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