HazelHelper download message at every start up.

[pdm32]

First of all, thanks for a great product!

Since upgrading to v 3, on every boot I receive the Apple warning that HazelHelper is an application downloaded from the Internet, asking if I am sure I want to open it. I must be missing an easy way to disable it, or I did not install things correctly. Thanks in advance for your kind assistance.

[Mr_Noodle]

This is a bug with Lion. When files are downloaded, a quarantine flag will be set on the file. After launching it, the OS is supposed to remove the flag. Unfortunately, Lion has a bug where it doesn't work some of the time. You can strip it off yourself via the commandline.

WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT UNLESS YOU ARE COMFORTABLE USING THE COMMANDLINE AND/OR HAVE GOOD BACKUPS

If you have Hazel installed just for your account, you can use the following command:

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   find ~/Library/PreferencePanes/Hazel.prefPane -exec xattr -d com.apple.quarantine {} \;


If you have it installed systemwide, the command is different. It will ask you for your admin password since you are modifying something installed at the system level:

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   sudo find /Library/PreferencePanes/Hazel.prefPane -exec xattr -d com.apple.quarantine {} \;


[joniisthecoolest]

This worked perfectly, thanks so much! The only trouble is, I don't have access to the sample rules. I really liked some of them and I am admittedly super lazy. Is there a place on the site where I can download them?

[Mr_Noodle]

You can re-add them via the cog/gear pull-down.

[phm]

Mr Noodle - I am not an expert on commandline & have the same problem. Could you help me with the bug as I get this horrid HazelHelper.app message that is driving me mad & I cannot use my updated Hazel!

[Mr_Noodle]

If you can't use the commandline, then you should install Hazel again just for your account. Installing it machine-wide tends to cause problems.

[RRettke]

Thanks, your system wide terminal command worked perfect, cut and paste.

I did want to mention, because I don't see it in the forum, but this issue is not just Lion. I have a clean install of Mountain Lion (on both an iMac and a Macbook Pro) and both encountered this issue.

[Mr_Noodle]

Yeah, it appears Apple didn't fix the bug which is quite annoying. Oh well.

[Kha]

I am having the same problem as well. I have tried using the same command but it appears that there is no Hazel.prefPane in the folder you mentioned. Any ideas?

[Mr_Noodle]

If you look, there are two different places it could be. It pretty much has to be in one of those two places otherwise System Preferences won't see it.