Comments on: Show Download History List of All Files Ever Downloaded Within Mac OS X

By: John Robinson

John Robinson — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:15:00 +0000

Error: no such table: LSQuarantineEvent

I’ve tried all different ways and nothing of this hint works in 10.8.2 on an iMac 27″.

By: Bill Cole

Bill Cole — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:14:49 +0000

The article is incorrect in its description of the scope of what the “Quarantine Manager” sees and records in the QuarantineEvents database(s). Most of Apple’s own apps (but notably NOT the FTP-as-disk functionality of Finder) use it and so does Google Chrome, but based on a dump of the 15k records (mostly from Mail.app) on my Mac it is clear that Firefox, Thunderbird, MailMate, and NetNewsWire do not and Transmission (a BitTorrent client) seems to only use it for its self-update function. Command-line tools (e.g. curl, wget, etc.) also do not show up.

By: Melmahey

Melmahey — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:32:37 +0000

This is most AWESOME. I research so much stuff, I forget what I’ve downloaded. This is a great way for me to go back to files I needed and re-use them. Sweet.

This data is used by the ‘info’ command on files that were downloaded, so if you delete everything the ‘info’ command won’t tell you where you got the file from originally.

For me, that”s important. I grab example code snippets, standards docs, references, xls’s of proforma biz, all manner of great downloads. Now I can find the files i downloaded and grab the latest versions.

I promise I’ll be better organized next deadline driving, time constrained project!

By: r_x

r_x — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:19:00 +0000

hi all,
i’m a completely noob with terminal, but would love to explore this a bit more, any idea on how to get date and file size?

thanx in advance!
.r

By: pret

pret — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:08:48 +0000

You can turn this off with this defaults command

defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO

By: FYI

FYI — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 16:13:53 +0000

It’s a SQL database, not a txt file. Using the sudo command for the first time always issues a warning about its use.

By: John

John — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 14:56:08 +0000

I get nothing when I enter the commands above, but using the sudo addon I get

WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type “man sudo” for more information.

To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

I can find the QuarantineEvents and QuarantineEventsV2 files, but they all have the same two dates, March 2008 and May 2012. When I open them with textEdit it appears to contain only emails. Searching them reveals no mp3 or txt or other media files, no dmg etc.

By: clod

clod — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:56:16 +0000

add ‘sudo ‘ before the command (without the quotes)

By: David

David — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:07:28 +0000

mmm. I get permission denied. I’m logged in as admin

David

By: Loz

Loz — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 09:32:47 +0000

I dont like the idea of MAC saving a list of all my downloads,
I would like to either disable this option or as the article says to delete the list on start up using the .profile or .bash_profile – however after spending a few minutes searching via the terminal im unable to find either of those files mentioned. can anyone shed any advice for a novice MAC user?.

Thank you.

Loz!

By: clod

clod — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 06:18:35 +0000

just delete the whole thing … launchservice makes a new one as soon as you download something else.

If you’ve disabled Quarantine as I have (defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO)

You can lock the file (via the Get Info window) to prevent further writing to it if you don’t like the idea of your OS logging your dowloads.

You can use Base or another SQL editor if you simply want to edit the file…

Cheers!

By: abhey

abhey — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 06:10:09 +0000

Thanks. Works for me

By: clod

clod — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 05:18:25 +0000

can one delete this file altogether?

By: clod

clod — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 05:15:02 +0000

none of these work;

Error: no such table: LSQuarantineEvent

Error: too many options: “LSQuarantineDataURLString”

Error: too many options: “select LSQuarantineDataURLString from LSQuarantineEvent”

I tried every possible syntax, without the V, *, single quotes, double quotes…etc.

Doesn’t work. 10.6.8
the file “com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEvents” is there though…

By: Max

Max — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:59:45 +0000

Now tell me how to clear this list with pr0n that I download recently