forums.macosxhints.com - 11/4/2009
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Ok ... I've figured it out. My image files were "quarantined". I figured that there must be some kind of permission issue so I did a long listing and got many files that looked like this: So I did some research and found out that the '@' sign at the end meant that the file has additional ...
db.tidbits.com - 11/4/2009
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db.tidbits.com —
A handful of recent threads on Apple's Support
Discussion forums - backed up by our own testing...
- indicate that Snow Leopard suffers from a bug that prevents users from opening multiple recently downloaded files simultaneously. Upon attempting to open a group of downloaded files (that have not ...
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Snow Leopard Bug Prevents Opening Groups of Files
techradar.com - 10/31/2009
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Snow Leopard Bug Prevents Opening Groups of Files
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us —
... A user writing on the Mac OS X Hints forum suggested, after having explored permissions on affected files in Terminal, that the issue is related to files being flagged by the system as quarantined. Of all the suggested causes, this one has gained the most support, and others have posited that Snow Leopard's stronger security settings are at the root of the overly restrictive quarantine attributes. ...
Snow Leopard quirk prevents opening groups of recently downloaded files
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... Of course, that's just my theory, but I'm apparently not the only one who has explored that possibility -- a reader on the Mac OS X Hints forum discovered some hard evidence supporting that theory. In ...
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