verifying progress bar on every file.

Hi All,


I upgraded my software today to macOS High Sierra and it now seems whenever I open a file be in media or others I get a prompt about "verifying the file". I just went to use Zipeg and when I went to extract I got the same message again and it took about 5 minutes for the verifying file bar to go away.


Is anyone else having this issue? I'm hoping its a basic setting that I need to turn off but so far no luck in finding anything.


Thanks in advance.

iMac, macOS High Sierra (10.13)

Posted on Sep 28, 2017 2:02 PM

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Posted on Oct 4, 2017 2:26 AM

Hello, I was able to get rid of this annoyance. 🙂


Just launch this command in a Terminal opened in the folder that contains the involved files:


xattr -d com.apple.quarantine *

It will delete the quarantine flag from file's extended attributes and the verification won't appear. Replace the * with a filename/pattern if don't want it to affect every file.

Hope it helps.


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Oct 9, 2017 6:43 AM in response to fabio56

If I connect to the drive with the applescript:


tell application "Finder" to open location "smb://<share>"

Is your drive FileVaulted?

I'm curious because when I try to connect using AppleScript, I get a kernel panic. I think the panic may be related to an encrypted volume, but not certain.


I was going to try to see what differences occur when connecting using each method, but obviously cannot at this point.

Oct 9, 2017 7:51 AM in response to Barney-15E

I was going to try to see what differences occur when connecting using each method, but obviously cannot at this point.

I looked at the two mounting options on another Mac and the only difference I could see was a call to smb_mount with mntflags of 0x0 when Connect to Server was used and 0x400 on an AppleScript mount.

I couldn't find any references for those values (or smb_mount or mntflags for that matter).

Perhaps there is someone out there that might be able to determine if those would matter.


If the mount method matters (i.e. it works for others having the problem), here are some other ways to mount network shares (old article, but most probably still work):

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100403050702737

Oct 26, 2017 12:36 AM in response to fabio56

So

Here is my take on it.


Pro

Well done apple for implementing a quarantine feature to check file coming from untrusted sources.


Con

Bad implementation for waiting for use to interact with the file before scanning it.


This would be a great feature if the scanning could just take place in the background say over night or something.

Is there a way to script a scan and verify command?


Matt

Dec 26, 2017 5:43 PM in response to seansellars

Guys, I am getting this problem and I am on the latest version of OS High Sierra 10.13. 2. I never had this before but every time I open either an mp4 or an mkv file using VLC I get a pop up saying that it has to verify the file this takes between 2 to 4 minutes to complete and appears to be stuck at 60% and then eventually plays the file. What on earth is going on? Can anyone from Apple or somebody that knows what is going wrong please help. Because this is extremely annoying because I have quite a lot of Mp4 and MkV files on a NAS drive.


Thanks


Harry

Jan 3, 2018 1:53 PM in response to Huss417

I'm setting up my new iMac Pro (it's on OS X 10.13.2), and having this issue, but worse, because the verification always fails, and I get a message telling me that the file is damaged and should be moved to the trash. In the case of videos and images that I have transferred from my old Mac, I can open them once successfully (in Quicktime or Preview), but after that I can't open them any more because they are supposedly damaged. In the case of newly created or downloaded files, they can't be opened at all. This includes downloaded installers (.dmg files).

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