Comments on: Changing the system’s default settings for html files (safe)

By: Mark Gaither

Mark Gaither — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:16:24 +0000

Adobe Digital Editions users:

Add the file extension ACSM to the key LSRiskCategoryExtensions.

Here’s an example:

LSRiskCategorySafe

LSRiskCategoryContentTypes

public.html

LSRiskCategoryExtensions

ACSM

By: Lazeez

Lazeez — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:33:30 +0000

The quarantine bit is set for already downloaded files and you’ll get the warning dialog for each file that you want to open. Of course, there is a way around this. Using the terminal is the quickest way to do this.

The following command removes the quarantine bit from the files:

find . -name '*.phtml' -exec xattr -d com.apple.quarantine {} \;

of course, you need to navigate to the directory holding those phtml files before you type this command. The backslash before the semi-colon at the end is important.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:59:13 +0000

This works great on newly downloaded files but I have noticed specifically .phtml files I have downloaded before implementing the plist file still give the message, ” may be a script application. It was downloaded from the internet…” etc.

All other file types I’ve tested are okay just .phtml

I used Safari 4 to download this file a few months back.

Any .phtml files downloaded after are fine and do not give the annoying message.

Any ideas as I have many files with this extension?

By: cara Mia

cara Mia — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:11:31 +0000

Today it doesn’t work. The .plist file seems to have vanished. Re-created it, still can’t open a pile of files without the safety prompt interfering…

By: Cara Mia

Cara Mia — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:06:51 +0000

This is awesome thank you, just what I needed. It didn’t work at first but shutting down Safari may have made it work. Or, I had been trying to open a pile of files all highlighted before created the new .plist file… not sure if unhighlighting and re-highlighting made it finally work, or if it was the restart of Safari. Happy it works now though. Surprised Apple doesn’t have a setting for this under Security in System Preferences so weird.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:10:05 +0000

It’s a shame we have to work around but it’s always great in the Mac world to know people are dedicated to helping people rather than make a buck… Worked great… Thanks for the post and the help.

By: Shirley

Shirley — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:48:33 +0000

Works like a charm !

As first it didn’t work because I mistakenly put the plist file in Library/Preferences instead of Users/Username/Library/Preferences. After I moved it to the correct location it works and saves me countless clicks (opening HUNDREDS of php files today).

This “feature” of Leopard is SOOOOO annoying !

Thank you so much for sharing !

By: Tom Schneider

Tom Schneider — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:25:07 +0000

Thanks for posting this! You have to reboot or restart your machine for it to take effect.

By: aMac

aMac — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:44:37 +0000

Thank you. This “bug” have bothered me ever since it was introduced in 10.5.1. I can’t understand why Apple have’nt included a ‘safe file’ option in System Preferences or something. So we can choose what files are safe or not.

By: PC

PC — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:00:31 +0000

anyone know… do wildcards work? Because, honestly, and i know this is not always a good policy, i would just add * if wildcards work… because i’m cautious about where i go, what i do, and i have antivirus anyways. They’ve already made it so no script can rm -rf /*, well not without prompting me for my password. So just by watching for password prompts… Apple, please make Quarantine FOAD.

PLSKTHNXBAI.

By: Peter Hillerström

Peter Hillerström — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:44:38 +0000

Thank you very very much!

I’ve been so irritated that TextMate decided to implement this security “feature” introduced in Mac OS X Leopard, and refuses to open multiple php files at once even when I accept one of them.

Apple has definitely made a wrong decision here about executing “safe” content upon download and not showing the file extensions by default!

By: David A Teare

David A Teare — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:42:03 +0000

Thanks for the awesome fix!

For those that it didn’t work, try restarting Safari. No idea if that is mandatory, but it’s what I did and it works great.

By: me

me — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:19:53 +0000

doesn’t work for me either!

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By: Jasper

Jasper — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:58:55 +0000

This didn’t work for me, I’m trying to add torrents to the safe list. both links are dead so i can’t find the file type stuff :/

osx 10.5.6

By: Peter da Silva

Peter da Silva — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:33:55 +0000

Well, crap, Safari seems to be ignoring DownloadAssesment.plist.

By: Winstrong

Winstrong — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:35:43 +0000

Thanks very much for posting this and making it easy to find with a Google search.

By: Kelsang pagchen

Kelsang pagchen — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:52:59 +0000

sorry it should read:
public.php-script

By: Kelsang pagchen

Kelsang pagchen — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:51:37 +0000

I also added this line so I can zip php files I just downloaded with CleanArchiver:
public.php-script

thank you so much, its a savior for me !

By: Peter da Silva

Peter da Silva — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:18:02 +0000

These are there as a result of two stupid decisions by apple, copied from Microsoft:

1. open “safe” files after downloading.
2. hide file extensions for known file types

Instead of backing off these bad ideas, Apple implemented a copy of the tool Microsoft uses to train people to answer “YES” to “badguy.com wants to install a virus on your computer. Is this OK? (Install) (Panic)”. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Apple.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:24:15 +0000

THANK YOU! These stupid security alerts drive me nuts. I wish there was an easy way to shut it off completely. If you know anything about computers you shouldn’t need it.

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