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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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Jul 27, 2016 5:22 PM in response to Merikus

I'm having the same issue. The problem I'm encountering is that my Automator apps are set to fire off iMessages. If I pre-open (i.e. run) the apps before scheduling them in Calendar, then half a dozen people would get bombarded with text messages for an event that isn't happening. I can certainly do that, but I'd prefer my end users not get an awkward behind-the-scenes preview of what should be an invisible process. If anyone has any suggestions on how to keep my developer's laundry from being aired in public, I'm all ears.

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

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