How to Disable "You Are Opening The Application For The First Time?"

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How to Disable "You Are Opening The Application For The First Time?"

I run a small, low power FM community radio station in Vermont. We are a non-profit, and have for years run our recording and automation system through a combination of iTunes Playlists, Automator Scripts, and Calendar Actions. Basically, shows are recorded and then replayed at a later time by using a Calendar Alarm which activates an Automator Script which then plays the appropriate MP3 of the show.

We upgraded to 10.10 last night. Ever since then, whenever one of our Calendar Alarms goes off, the script does not fire. Instead, we get the "You Are Opening The Application For The First Time" dialogue box for approval. We tried working around this by opening each and every script and pressing the "OK" button, but this keeps on happening the first time the script is called for via the Calendar Alarm.

We need to disable this feature of 10.10, but nothing we have tried so far has fixed it. It appears to us that this is controlled via LaunchServices Quarantine. We have tried to disable this by using the following commands, to no effect:

defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool false

defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO

Both have been run with normal privileges and with sudo. Restarts have occurred after we tried each one.

I hope there is some way to disable this, as this feature effectively breaks our entire system.

Thank you for your help.

Posted on Oct 25, 2014 8:31 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 31, 2017 10:18 PM in response to bishbosh

I may be wrong, but I think 'appreciate' was on to something because the stated problem was related to 'Calendar Alarms'. I've rebuilt the 'registry db' using 'lsregister', and I get this same type of warning the first time I open an application that's been around for a long time, and launched without warning BEFORE I rebuilt the registry.

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Linc Davis

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Oct 25, 2014 6:27 PM in response to Merikus

Open the script file by right-clicking it and selecting Open from the contextual menu. Test.

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Merikus Author

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Oct 26, 2014 12:17 PM in response to Linc Davis

We tried that, but it still occurs again the first time the Calendar application opens it. That's why we were hoping there might be a way to disable it on a system-wide level.

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Linc Davis

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Oct 26, 2014 12:48 PM in response to Merikus

Select the text on the line below by dragging across it. Don't include the blank space at the end of the line. Only the text should be highlighted.

ls -@Oeln

Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.

Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.

Paste into the Terminal window by pressing command-V, then press the space bar.

Now switch to the Finder and and select the item(s) in question. Drag into the Terminal window. More text will be added to what you entered.

Click in the Terminal window to activate it, then press return.

Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear. Post any lines that appear below that line—the text, please, not a screenshot.

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Merikus Author

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Oct 28, 2014 2:00 PM in response to Linc Davis

Thank you for your help with this. Here is what I got from following those instructions:

total 0

drwxr-xr-x@ 3 777 20 - 102 Mar 24 2014 11th Hour.app

com.apple.FinderInfo 32