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Comment on OS X Leopard - Are you sure you want to open it? by Davinian

Davinian — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:44:50 +0000

@Lisa, thanks for mentioning this as it is to forget.

@Micmac and @Janimir - try re-saving the .plist file as plain text from TextEdit.

In TextEdit the quick key to convert to plain text is Apple+Shift+T (Apple = Command key on modern Keyboards).

Hopefully that will solve the problem?

Comment on OS X Leopard - Are you sure you want to open it? by Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:57:13 +0000

Micmac, the file has to be a plaintext filetype also, which is not the default format in TextEdit. Make sure you change the format to plaintext before saving it.

Comment on OS X Leopard - Are you sure you want to open it? by janimir

janimir — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:49:35 +0000

sorry to tell, but doesn’t work for me - I’m on 10.5.4 and I’w created plist file with bbedit. rebooted, tested, restarted… changed creator to Property List Editor, rebooted, tested, restarted… And I’m still “sure that I want to open those files”
what can be wrong?
file is coded as utf-8 no BOM with LF line breaks… was placed in ~/Library/Preferences and than moved to /Library/Preferences and I was working at list for 30 minutes to fin why it isn’t working for me, but I have no more ideas.
tnx for any help…
btw, what are “Safe Preferences” for?

(here is mine file)


	LSRiskCategorySafe
		LSRiskCategoryContentTypes
			public.html

			public.php-script

			public.plain-text

			public.image

Comment on OS X Leopard - Are you sure you want to open it? by Micmac

Micmac — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 09:33:48 +0000

Hello, I created the file com.apple.DownloadAssessment.plist with Textedit, put it in ~/Library/Preferences but it doesn’t work even after 2 restarts. I am using a French OS 10.5.5, this file has e generic icon but not a plist icon, but has the right extension .plist (not RTF). Any idea how to fix it please ? I hate these stupid warnings every time I launch a new app to test it …

Comment on OS X Leopard - Are you sure you want to open it? by Dave

Dave — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:03:10 +0000

Hey guys,

Thanks for your help. So far, I cannot get Leopard to ignore the warning for these .seq files. If anyone wants to give it a try, I’m happy to email a sample.

Comment on OS X Leopard - Are you sure you want to open it? by Howard

Howard — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:25:18 +0000

Might want to check out Macenterprise.org's page about this. There are a few values that can be used, so if you have a foobar.seq file like the poster above, include it like:


LSRiskCategorySafe 

     LSRiskCategoryExtensions
          
               seq

or if you knew the property list type, you could include it with the LSRiskCategoryContentTypes key, like this for foobar.tar archives:


LSRiskCategorySafe 

     LSRiskCategoryContentTypes
          
               public.tar-archive

Comment on OS X Leopard - Are you sure you want to open it? by Davinian

Davinian — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:42:11 +0000

@Dave

Not 100% sure, although I would think something like:-

public.seq

If you want to send me a .seq file I will have a play around with it and let you know if I can get it to work?

Comment on OS X Leopard - Are you sure you want to open it? by Dave

Dave — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:03:54 +0000

Nice find.

Any idea how you add a file type that is not listed on the Dev site? For example, I download a lot of .seq files which are in fact just .txt files (DNA sequences). Any ideas on how I would add those? The warning is incredibly irritating. Thanks,

Comment on OS X Leopard - Are you sure you want to open it? by Rocket

Rocket — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:51:33 +0000

Right its working now. I don’t think I did anything differently but at least its working. Thanks for the reply. I’m a bit unimpressed with Apple for building that feature into Leopard, especially without an obvious way to turn it off. I remember when Apple stuff used to just ‘work’.
Thanks again.

Comment on OS X Leopard - Are you sure you want to open it? by Davinian

Davinian — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:14:13 +0000

@Rocket, use TextEdit to create the file, but make sure you call it “com.apple.DownloadAssessment.plist” when you save it to the ~/Library/Preferences folder.

Let me know if you are still having problems.