Ode to Apple

Well, ever since we upgrade to Leopard, we’ve been seeing that “security” warning that your File “is an application which was downloaded form the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?” This happens every time after downloading a file and attempting to execute or un-archive it.

I’m sure that for most of us, we’re cautious enough to know what we downloaded and that we wanted to execute it without Leopard coming in between us and our prey. If you’re one of those, Hendrik have a solution on how you can Lift the Leopard download quarantine.

Here is how he does it;

1. Download Unquarantine.scpt and drop it in ~/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts.
2. Go to ~/Downloads or wherever your downloads go
3. Right-click, More > Configure Folder Actions… Check “Enable Folder Actions”
4. Attach the “Unquarantine” action to the folder

Note: As the folder action only applies to that folder (Downloads in our case). If you download a file to a directory without this folder action attached, Leopard is free to nag again. Head over to Hendrik’s site to download the script and learn what the script does.