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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widemos

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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 29, 2017 8:43 PM in response to da250

Perfect. All fixed. Many thanks.

Oct 31, 2017 10:54 AM in response to Huss417

Any luck with todays update to 10.13.1? Im still on Sierra due to this annoying issue

Huss417 Author

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Nov 3, 2017 9:54 AM in response to Theartofshred

Re Uploaded High Sierra after downgrading back to Sierra and it does appear all is working as it should be.

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