How to disable Safari's warning when I open downloaded files?

[nightfly13]

I guess it's a change with Snow Leopard, but now when I download a .nzb file and try to open it I get the warning message that it's 'an unknown application downloaded from the Internet' (which, of course, it is not) and I have to manually open that. A .nzb file is not an app, but an executable file (launches NZB Drop, for me). The fact is I don't think I've ever had the message fire and not want to open it. I'd prefer to just disable it all together.

Please no moralizing on nzb files, I enjoy reading news, ok

 

[dogen]

I'll heartily second that request. I'd really really like to disable the irritating warnings. If I liked them I'd use a Microsoft product.

Even so, if Apple is going to enable a tiresome annoyance, the least it can do is let users turn the bloody alerts off. I for one have hands often on the edge of repetitive strain problems. The last thing I need is to be forced to continually click OK boxes unnecessary to begin with. Grrr.

 

[nightfly13]

After searching Mac Rumors and posting, I posted this thread subject's question into google and tried the top 2-3 options. One says look for an action script and remove it (wasn't there anymore in Snow Leopard) and another has me apply a line of javascript into the downloads folder (made no difference) so I'm still stuck.

Insight would be great!

 

[omni-impotent]

I totally agree with you! I have same problems with .nzb files. One time I thought I had started downloading a very large news file and then went out for dinner with my girlfriend. I suggested coming back to mine afterwards to read some news together for a few hours but then I realised the download was stuck at the warning dialog. Needless to say, she was not impressed.

Anyway, I have read of disabling this feature completely but could be dangerous. I think the most elegant solution is to setup a script scanning the download folder for .nzb files and removing the warning for just those files.

I will see if I can find anything or write my own script. If you hear something, can you let me know? Cheers

 

[nightfly13]

Sorry to hear about how this issue had a negative impact on your love life

Reading news together can be very bonding

So yeah, I think I've tried both of the methods you mentioned - they're for older versions of Safari/Leopard. At least they didn't make any difference for me.

I'll keep spamming here in case someone has a solution..

 

[Jamesthatcher]

I totally agree with you! I have same problems with .nzb files. One time I thought I had started downloading a very large news file and then went out for dinner with my girlfriend. I suggested coming back to mine afterwards to read some news together for a few hours but then I realised the download was stuck at the warning dialog. Needless to say, she was not impressed.

Anyway, I have read of disabling this feature completely but could be dangerous. I think the most elegant solution is to setup a script scanning the download folder for .nzb files and removing the warning for just those files.

I will see if I can find anything or write my own script. If you hear something, can you let me know? Cheers

**** man disaster

 

[omni-impotent]

Ok. After reading through many pages, the best solution (at least for me) is to setup an automator folder action. The key is to use the still functioning terminal command "xattr -d com.apple.quarantine <filename>" to disable this annoying download warning message.

An example can be found here: http://henrik.nyh.se/2007/10/lift-the-leopard-download-quarantine but I found it didn't work so well on 10.6. All I did was make an automator folder action attached to my ~/Downloads folder with the terminal command:

find ~/Downloads -name *.nzb -exec xattr -d com.apple.quarantine {} \;

This finds all files with the extension .nzb and removes the quarantine tag. Hope that helps.

 

[allan.nyholm]

MacPilot has an option to turn off the "Downloaded from some website" dialogue. I'm not sure if this works for the OP.. I have tried using the hidden option within Leopard and that worked fine but I haven't tried it yet on Snow Leopard. MacPilot is shareware though. But I think it has a 14 day trial.

 

[nightfly13]

Hmm is the automator action something that has to be done just once or something you have to do regularly. Often I want to start the NZB I just DL'd immediately - and that's where the extra click is annoying.

Funny to think how much energy we've spent talking about fixing this - that would have been like a years worth of clicking the dialog box.

 

[omni-impotent]

haha I have to admit, I have spent a few hours reading and thinking about it. However, a few hours now compared to a lifetime of clicking away the annoying prompt and possibly getting RSI from this due to my large multi-monitor setup. This is combined with the fact that apple quarantine stopped me from getting laid once and so I promised it will never do it again. Not on my watch. Not to anyone else either. Who's with me??!?? *ahem*

Anyway, the above folder action automator is called automatically when a new file appears in the ~/Downloads directly. So once it is set up, it will do everything automatically without you having to manually run it.

A minor question remains if this works for large .nzb files that take awhile to download as well. I will test this for Firefox and Snow Leopard tonight. If that is the case, I will add the waiting for file to finish downloading to the automator script and post it here.

Thanks.

 

[dogen]

Can you be more specific about how to ditch the warning in MacPilot?

 

[dogen]

Apologies, forgot to quote the relevant post:

MacPilot has an option to turn off the "Downloaded from some website" dialogue. I'm not sure if this works for the OP.. I have tried using the hidden option within Leopard and that worked fine but I haven't tried it yet on Snow Leopard. MacPilot is shareware though. But I think it has a 14 day trial.

How is this done?

 

[levytv]

well im sorry if this is two years late - but in macpilot on the left you scroll down to system and there is a dialogue to check to disable the annoying warning.