Hi Lorin, All credit to Rob for explaining the technical details, but not knowing how technical/power-user you are, the shorter answer is: Yes, Apple “sees” if you move an application with the Finder and uses that as a kind of approval or authorization step.
That is, apps that you move “by hand” (with Finder) gain some system privileges, but apps just sitting in your Downloads folder or moved by some process like Quicksilver are still treated as “possibly downloaded unintentionally” and run within a special environment designed to minimize any virus or malware impacts. Summary: as of macOS 10.12, automating the installation of applications downloaded from the web is no longer very useful. Cheers, Brian On Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 1:15:16 PM UTC-7, Rob McBroom wrote: > > On 16 May 2017, at 1:21, Lorin Hochstein wrote: > > > All of these issues go away if I manually drag the app out of > > /Applications > > and then drag it back in. > > You’re running into Sierra’s Path Randomization. When you drag an > application using Finder, it does something to the metadata to prevent > the issues you’re running into. > > https://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/06/16/gatekeeper-path-randomization/ > > -- > Rob McBroom > http://www.skurfer.com/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
