OSX Leopard: Disable ‘”Program name” is a script application which was downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?’ Message

Posted by Mitch on Feb 03, 2009 under Mac Tips | 3 Comments

Disable the annoying dialog box message that appears when you try to open a file you downloaded from the Internet.

“Program name” is a script application which was downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?

1. Navigate to Library/Preferences.

2. Create a file called com.apple.DownloadAssessment.plist

3. Use a text editor to put the following text in the file:

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC “-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN”
“http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd”>
<plist version=”1.0″>
<dict>
<key>LSRiskCategoryNeutral</key>
<dict>
<key>LSRiskCategoryContentTypes</key>
<array>
<string>public.item</string>
</array>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>

4. Log out, then log back in. You’re done!

3 Responses to “OSX Leopard: Disable ‘”Program name” is a script application which was downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?’ Message”

Mark says:

December 20, 2009 at 8:11 pm

1. Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app as the frustrated user;
2. Log in with an admin account. Type: ‘login’, give username and pwd;
3. Type: ‘sudo chown root /Applications/x.app’ (where x.app is the name of the Application);
4. Tap in the admin pwd;
5. Type: ‘logout’;
6. There is no step 6.

Do not type the quotes in the above code.

Works for 10.5x…

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Charlie Nielsen says:

September 13, 2009 at 1:10 am

Thanks for the tip! I’ll give it a test now and hopefully it works.

It’s been such an annoyance to work with PHP and have to confirm 60 openings for editing a site’s functions .. ARGH.

Thanks again!

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toni says:

February 23, 2009 at 11:09 pm

Wonderful! Thank you for this tip. I felt like I was using vista with all these nag boxes. Any tips on how to remove the “.imported” file extension 10.5 adds to the end of all my .torrent files would also be appreciated

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