Hi Steve, I decided to try using TextWrangler, at least for now, to edit my scripts. Hopefully that will solve this problem. Thanks,
Gregg On 1 May 2012, at 12:41 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > on 2012-05-01 7:50 Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [E] wrote >> The above command allowed my script to run again. Of course, if I use >> TextEdit to make any additional changes to the script, I get the error >> message again and have to run the xattr command again, so the "fix" is not >> permanent. > > as expected > >> I spent a few minutes googling. It appears that the quarantine attribute, >> which I had never heard of, is new in 10.7.3. Also, it appears that >> TextEdit "causes" this problem, but some other text editors such as >> TextWrangler do not. > > perhaps it is a "security" feature to avoid exploits automating TextEdit > (which > an exploit can depend on being installed) to create scripts; i would use a > different text editor, as TextEdit is not really ideal for this purpose anyway > >> Perhaps I will have to switch to a different editor, at least for scripts. >> Alternatively, do you know of a way to tell TextEdit not to mess with the >> quarantine attribute? > > not directly; you could add a folder action to the folder with your script(s) > which removes the attribute whenever a file is modified — would be clunky, > but > if you have to use TextEdit and you need to modify this script frequently, it > might save you time _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
