App Translocation (Sierra & High Sierra)

I often fall foul to this security features. It requires apps be manually moved from wherever they have been downloaded in order to not be affected.

But I have Hazel move downloaded apps to /Applications

Could it be that Hazel could set whatever it needs to on moving an app to avoid Translocation?

Thanks

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/app ... ation.html

Starting in OS X v10.12, you can no longer provide external code or data alongside your code-signed app in a zip archive or unsigned disk image. An app distributed outside the Mac App Store runs from a randomized path when it is launched and so cannot access such external resources.

If using a disk image to ship an app, users should drag the app from the image to its desired installation location (usually /Applications) before launching it. This also applies to apps installed via ZIP or other archive formats or apps downloaded to the Downloads directory: ask the user to drag the app to /Applications and launch it from there.

This practice avoids an attack where a validly signed app launched from a disk image, ZIP archive, or ISO (CD/DVD) image can load malicious code or content from untrusted locations on the same image or archive. Starting with macOS Sierra, running a newly-downloaded app from a disk image, archive, or the Downloads directory will cause Gatekeeper to isolate that app at a unspecified read-only location in the filesystem. This will prevent the app from accessing code or content using relative paths.

I'm not sure what the question is here. What is it you want Hazel to do beyond moving the file?

Clear the quarantine xattr (sorry it was explained only at the link)

That would require a script. You can run the xattr command from a shell script to do that.

Mr_Noodle wrote:That would require a script. You can run the xattr command from a shell script to do that.

Thanks! Have done so:

Run shell script, embedded script, /bin/bash

Code: Select all: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "$1"

Cheers