Warning message in Lion

Second, this is not the only issue experienced on this machine. Within a space of five minutes I saw:

Then something is very seriously wrong with that machine, and it's almost certainly NOT the hardware. Based on all your descriptions, I'm about 90% certain that you have some third-party software installed that is either junk or incompatible with Lion, or both. Returning the hardware will do you no good if you install the same thing on whatever machine you buy next.

In any case, though, saying something inflammatory about how Apple's staff is asleep on the job is even more ridiculous when you add multiple issues like this... the problem is yours to either solve or run away from.

I've got software installed on this machine that I haven't had installed on all of my Macs since at least OS X 10.4, and in most cases even longer. None of it is junk, and yes, I did check each item for Lion compatibility before installing. Give me a little credit, please.

Yes, I know it's not a hardware problem. But there is a problem with this hardware: it comes with Lion preinstalled, and I certainly don't want Lion.

Your patronizing attitude isn't helpful at all. Your blythe assumption that others don't know what they're doing is really of no use to anything but your own ego.

I'm having the same problem and am disappointed to have read all five pages of these messages over several months and still no fix from Apple.

I have the same requirements as some of the other users here--namely to open a batch of files at the same time--which this "security feature" is preventing me from doing because it wants me to approve each one individually. I used to be able to highlight a whole folder's worth of images and pop them open together in Preview or Photoshop. But I can't do that ever since I installed Lion a month or two ago. Now I have to approve and open each one individually.

I work in animation, so I need to open and quickly review multiple jpegs, pngs and/or .psd images sent to me by my trusted artists. More often than not, we shoot these files to each other over IM rather than emailing or YouSendIt-ing them. Sometimes we post to our ftp site. Regardless of how and where I got them and how much I trust the senders, image files are not applications, so something's amiss here that has nothing to do with the files themselves.

So the terminal command doesn't work for me in Lion. I was able to completely disable this functionality in Lion though with Onyx. I wrote about it here:

http://problemstosolve.com/2012/03/04/disable-os-x-lions-is-an-application-downl oaded-from-the-internet-are-you-sure-you-want-to-open-it-message-with-onyx/

Or you could just download Onyx and uncheck the warn about downloaded files from the internet checkbox:

http://www.titanium.free.fr/download.php?sid=b44f95b92bf2b177bfe507666860ff31

I argree that this dialog is useless. *Most* files these days were downloaded from the internet. Lion was downloaded from the internet. I am a PHP programmer and I see it every time I open my own files that I coded. It even gets triggered on HTML an JPG files and it drives me nuts.

I don't think it's dangerous to disable it. I can't think of anyone seeing this dialog and thinking, "Oh, from the internet!" and clicking cancel. It harks back to Vista's "Allow or Cancel" dialog. For files that automatically open from Safari, they should not automatically open, that is bad browser behavior.

How do I use the Terminal?

Thanks for calling him out, Midville. 😉 I've been following this thread and this Mr. Reed's condescending tone has been adding more frustration than necessary. Why direct such attitude when we are only looking for answers and relief to our situation? Instead of dismissing our concerns and pointing fingers to us users, this topic should be taken more seriously-- especially for the premium price we pay for this hardware AND software! I think this bug is more prevalent than it seems... perhaps the reason it is not brought up more often is because it does not 'affect' others as strongly (such as those who do not download multiple image files or if it does not concern/harm their work and productivity).