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Capabilities does not prevent apps from launching
Authored by: leebennett on Nov 24, '02 03:47:16PM

If you look more carefully at the Capabilities window, the text after the checkbox reads, "Show these applications in 'My Applications' folder:" It does not say anything about only allowing these applications to run. Turns out, you can still launch applications that are not in the My Applications folder. For example, I downloaded a self-decompressing zip archive (.EXE file) which OS X, naturally, didn't know what to do with. When I tried to open it, I got a box asking what app I wanted to use. Most were greyed out apparently because OS X decided that those apps were absolutely not capable of opening the file. But MS Word was available, even though I've not turned on Word in the capabilities window. Word launched and the expected garbage of the .EXE file showed up, but I could simply close that window and open a new one.

I've been told that apps _can_ be prevented from launching, but the capabilities window is not the place to do it.



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