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are you sure you want to open it?
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If you could come across as any more abrasive, I'd give ya a medal. No, seriously, I think I come across as abrasive, but you outdid me here. Clearly you haven't read the pages and pages of vehement disdain for Apple from many long-time Apple users. So not only is your post the scribblings of an antagonised moron, it's also misinformed.
To the point:
Sure, Vista had it first, but OS X's kernel is kept COMPLETELY separate from any third party developers, so in actual fact Vista's iteration is a total waste of time, hence why they openly allow you to turn it off - that's not brains, that's deflecting possible blame. Vista had it first, but Leopard was the first to actually put it to any use. Besides which, given the amount of features that both parties have 'borrowed' from each other, who is counting any more?
Oh, and with regard to showing file extensions - http://www.fileinfo.net/help/mac-show-extensions.html. Oddly enough, Windows doesn't show file extensions without being set to do it.
Where's my kool-aid?
I'm not going to argue with you. I think you are misunderstanding the point I was trying to make. Re-read this thread. Everyone thinks it's user error or a smart feature. It is a useless feature. It doesn't look at the code to see if it's doing something malicious. It is just stupidly repeating its self. Double click to open file, then click I'm sure I want to open it. If it asked me 17 more times it isn't going to change my mind. I want the damn file opened.
I am well aware you can turn on file extensions. I said if they wanted to do something useful, they would not have hid them to begin with.
Part of the problem was a complete misunderstanding on the part of everyone at the start of the thread.
Some of us have seen applications ask this question repeatedly until the application is opened under an administrative account, which sounded like what you were seeing at first. Upon clarification, many of us agree that when you select a number of downloaded files to open in an application that the OS should not have to ask you if you want to open each file individually, one dialogue box should suffice for multiple files. I'm sure that even you'd probably have not complained if you selected a few files and had to click "OK" once to confirm that you wanted to open the downloaded file(s) and had that one click cover all of the selected files you tried to open.
It seems as though this is an oversight on Apple's part, especially when you go through an application to open the files. I can see asking when you double click a file or open one from the web for the first time via command+o, but when you open them up as documents in another application, you should be able to bypass that option or at least only have to be asked once for a multi-file selection.
I know and I thank you for the help. It doesn't bother me when someone is giving an idea trying to help. It's the responses that add nothing but apple praise when someone is having problems *coughs* post 2 *cough* or defending an obvious flaw that are all over this site that make my skin crawl.
To be fair, your first post says nothing about having this happen with multiple files and causing the application to only open one file at a time halting the others.
For all we knew you were being irritated because an app asked you "are you sure" on it's first run and you found this to be overly annoying or intrusive, it was only after digging more that we got to the root of the problem and a better understanding of it, by which point people on both sides of the issue had gone a little overboard.
I got the impression you were looking for an argument, based upon your previous comments. Maybe I should have clarified though, read the forums, not just this post and you'll see that this isn't a one-sided place. Plenty of people have their gripes with Apple, you claimed that nobody here disagrees with them - "Apple can do no wrong."
The point you were trying to make? Yeah, I'm going to be honest, I did misunderstand, mainly because there was no real 'point' to speak of. You said it was a dumb feature that Apple should allow you to turn off - lo and behold, you can turn it off. Remind me what your point was again?
And all this blah blah blah about it being a pointless feature is not so much of a point than it is an opinion. Express it and prepare to have people disagree with you, it's what makes life's rich tapestry, or some crap like that.
Either way, enjoy your Mac.
So true, and it's pretty evident in almost any thread that tries to point out something negative about OS X.
I don't see how putting a dialog to confirm if a user wants to open a file will stop them from opening it, even if the file is infected (how would the user know without some sort of malware protection software?).
Multiple users of one Mac? Somebody downloads a file and doesn't open it, the other user, out of curiosity tries to open and is informed of where it came from. User B then goes to ask user A what it was and if it should be there.
Also, if a file attempts to execute itself without your say so, it would be nice to have the OS warn you that something is attempting to execute. Then you'd know if you had asked for that execution or not. I'm not saying that this is possible (yet), but a little foresight never hurt anybody.
Crud!
I just did the 'sudo chown -R root:admin /Whatever' on a bunch of files and now every app I open the files in says they're read only and I can't save them!
Help! What do I do know!?
I just did the 'sudo chown -R root:admin /Whatever' on a bunch of files and now every app I open the files in says they're read only and I can't save them!
Help! What do I do know!?
I agree, there are several cases where apple asks me 'are you sure you want to do this' and on windows there was always a tick box 'dont show this warning again' and that box is missing on Mac so you have to suffer it every time. Annoying.
This is the most annoying thing about leopard, especially when you have to update 20+ programmes all the time, and have this nonsense pop-up. No different to browsing the net, and getting stuck closing the pop-ups that safari can't stop!
Help!
Hi, I read through most of this topic, wondering if anyone else has actually been reading and trying to answer the question that was asked in post #1.
There seems to be a lot of off-topic security discussion going on and no serious answer to the question.
I am experiencing the same problem. I'm building a website and have .php files associated with a text-editor (TextMate in my case). Everytime I doubleclick a .php file in the finder I get a pop up warning box saying:
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"(filename).php" is a script application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?
(browsername).app downloaded this file today at (time) from (url).
[ ? ] [ Show Web Page ] [ Cancel ] [ Open ]
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I have to open a lot of these files and I can tell you it's frigging annoying to have to click through this warning 300 times a day: I get the point by now, I need not to be warned a millionth time for the same procedure!
If you as a reader of this topic still don't understand: try it yourself!
Does anyone know how to disable these warnings forever or for a certain filetype in general?
Hi, I read through most of this topic, wondering if anyone else has actually been reading and trying to answer the question that was asked in post #1.
There seems to be a lot of off-topic security discussion going on and no serious answer to the question.
I am experiencing the same problem. I'm building a website and have .php files associated with a text-editor (TextMate in my case). Everytime I doubleclick a .php file in the finder I get a pop up warning box saying:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
"(filename).php" is a script application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?
(browsername).app downloaded this file today at (time) from (url).
[ ? ] [ Show Web Page ] [ Cancel ] [ Open ]
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
I have to open a lot of these files and I can tell you it's frigging annoying to have to click through this warning 300 times a day: I get the point by now, I need not to be warned a millionth time for the same procedure!
If you as a reader of this topic still don't understand: try it yourself!
Does anyone know how to disable these warnings forever or for a certain filetype in general?
in my experience, the way to stop this warning is to open the said file, or any file, is to first add the file to the finder (apps folder or whatever folder you direct the file to be saved in) this means it is now on the hdd and belongs to you. so no more permission needed to open it.