Comments on: Disable the “Are you sure you want to open this file?” warning dialogue in Mac OS X

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Sun, 20 Jan 2013 05:07:28 +0000

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Show Download History to List All Files Ever Downloaded Within Mac OS X — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:13:44 +0000

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By: virtual720

virtual720 — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:54:47 +0000

I was looking for this for a while now, Thank you for posing.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:39:35 +0000

Every time I log in, this happens for dropbox, and the command in terminal doesn’t work

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 20:15:21 +0000

Thank you. This helps.

By: Todd Morrigen

Todd Morrigen — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:57:02 +0000

To Shut Down (or Restart, or Sleep for that matter) without the ridiculous waiting period that Apple imposes on you, go to the “Keyboard” Preference Pane in System Preferences, click on the “Plus” sign at the bottom, copy the Menu Title you want (without the ellipses, of course), thusly – - “Shut Down”, or “Restart”, or “Sleep”.
Make sure the Application drop-down menu is set to “All Applications”. I always make the keyboard shortcut itself into something hard to hit by accident, but fairly easy to access (and not used by other apps), like “Shift-Opt-Command F1″. Restart and enjoy!

By: Disable the “Are you sure you want to open this file?” warning dialogue in Mac OS X | One star wonders

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:47:56 +0000

[...] Disable the “Are you sure you want to open this file?” warning dialogue in Mac OS X. [...]

By: r parsons

r parsons — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:31:57 +0000

Yes! I find this very annoying and Un-Mac like to be so annoying. The shutdown timer makes some sense even though that is too long. The restart timer is absurd. Oh, let me think about it for 1 min to see if I really wanted to restart. Should be 10 seconds at most.

By: MilkyTech

MilkyTech — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:35:13 +0000

but I want to eliminate it permanently, not just for 1 instance

By: Disable “application downloaded from the internet” message in Mac OS X - OS X Daily

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 15:02:06 +0000

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By: Disable the “Are you sure you want to open this file?” warning dialogue in Mac OS X « Chicago Mac/PC Support

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:24:06 +0000

[...] when lazy programmers don’t do their job and sign their apps. IF you don’t want to go here then do this on the terminal [...]

By: warmz

warmz — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:26:00 +0000

You can immediately shut down your MacBook Pro for example by using the following simultaneous key sequence:

Control Option Command Eject

Have fun!

By: edwardy

edwardy — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:44:51 +0000

@MilkyTech

Hold down option when choosing restart or shut down. Doing so will eliminate the dialog box that normally appears.

By: MilkyTech

MilkyTech — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:02:38 +0000

thats cool, but how about some code to disable the “Are you sure you want to restart your computer now?”
That and the Shut Down warning also.
Or at least a command to reduce the timer from 1 minute to 5 seconds or something

By: hpux735

hpux735 — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:36:28 +0000

Or, you could ask the developer to “sign” their apps so everyone is a little safer.

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Security/Conceptual/CodeSigningGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html