Thursday, April 10, 2008

“Adium” is an application which was downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?

I'm regretting choosing Mac as my laptop at Google. I thought it would be cool to learn something else than Linux. I thought it would be a nice to see that famous user friendliness. Instead, I get this annoying message about Adium, that is part of the company default image. And the only way to remove it is opening the command line, and typing:

find /Applications/Adium.app/ -print0 | sudo xargs -0 xattr -d com.apple.quarantine

Is this the new, fancy Mac? I feel right back home. And ten years younger.

3 comments:

Ajay Gautam said...

Come on, thats not so bad :)
Trust me, you don't want to be using vista ;)

Here is a longer way to do what you just did:

Ajays-MacBook:~ root# cd /Applications/

Ajays-MacBook:Applications root# xattr -l Adium.app | grep quar
com.apple.quarantine: 0000;47430860;Safari;65552E0F-EBB8-43FC-9B01-5B6A3045686A|com.apple.Safari

Ajays-MacBook:Applications root# xattr -d com.apple.quarantine Adium.app

Ajays-MacBook:Applications root# xattr -l Adium.app | grep quar

Unknown said...

I'm just getting too old for these :)

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