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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.

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 {} \;


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?

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

Could always disable Gatekeeper in your system settings, that'll stop the messages as well.

FYI, disabling Gatekeeper (i.e. in the Security & Privacy prefpane, setting "Allow apps downloaded from" to "Anywhere) does not fix this issue. At least not in Mavericks (10.9).

On El Capitan v10.11.2. I used the second command line in Terminal, and then it asked for system password. Once I input the password I saw a message "standard is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported." Did it work? I'm normally logged into a Standard account because I read that it's more secure. I'm almost positive that when I installed Hazel, I installed for all users. Thanks.

You need to be running an admin account so you can escalate to admin privileges for this operation. You should already have at least one such account on your system so log into that to perform the operation.

Normally when I install an app it asks me to authorize with Admin credentials. But no problem, I'll try doing it in my Admin account and let you know the results. Thanks.