i dont have this file , i dont know why.. im using mac os X 10.4.3

Please help men i cant find this file anywhere

The file DOES NOT exist by default, you need to create it and save it the user's Preferences folder. You can use a text editor like BBEdit/SubEthaEdit or plist tools like Apple Developer tool Property List Editor or shareware utility Plist Editor Pro to create the plist file.

hmmmm thanks you dude

Maybe I don't know enough about plists or something, but I can't get this to work. I just want Safari to stop asking if I'm sure I wanted to download an application, and I'd like it to automatically open bittorrents.

No joy, so far... can anyone explain a little more?

I just double-checked this and will work if you use the XML code noted in example 3...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>LSRiskCategoryNeutral</key>
  <dict>
    <key>LSRiskCategoryContentTypes</key>
    <array>
      <string>com.apple.application</string>
    </array>
  </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

Then quit/relaunch Safari and test downloading a dmg with app and you will NOT get a prompt.

Ah, excellent - that works. I was missing the first line.

OK, but how can I stop Safari from automatically appending ".txt" to files?

Everytime I download firmware, whether for my server, router, etc. it thinks the file should be appended, when I rather it didn't because right now I have to go to the "Get info" window to remove the ".txt" each time.

The most likely cause - whichever server you're retrieving those files from are serving the files with the wrong mimetype. Safari appends .txt to those files being served with the mimetype for text/html or whichever - because in essence it was told that the file <i>is</i> text.

If you can contact the webserver admins and have the server configuration fixed to serve the proper type, this'll go away. I haven't figured out a way to stop this behavior in Safari yet, but apparently a bug report about this has already been filed on Radar.

is that link reliable? how could example 1 be declaring "safe" files and example 2 be declaring "unsafe" files?

Yes, the link is reliable. It is my article and I have tested it with Mac OS X 10.4.3 and Safari Version 2.0.2 (416.13). For instance, example 1 with declares Citrix ICA files to be "safe" using uniform type identifier com.citrix.ICAClient.plist works for me. Note, that the plist file com.apple.DownloadAssessment.plist doesn't exist by default and I tested with the file in the current user's ~/Library/Preferences/ folder. I needed to quit/relaunch Safari after adding or modifying the com.apple.DownloadAssessment.plist file and you need the Safari setting 'Open "safe" files after downloading' enabled.

So, once I had the file created in the users Preferences folder with the proper XML info and quit/relaunch Safari, when I download a Citrix ICA file, for example *.ica, it downloads and then auto-opens the file into the Citrix ICA application.

There was a typo, in example two which I have fixed. It should have been "LSRiskCategoryUnsafeExecutable" NOT "LSRiskCategorySafe". Sorry about that error, and thanks for pointing it out.

nice. after some more testing, i can affirm that this does work, but only partially (at least in my case: safari 2.0.2/416.13).

for example, using .pdf extensions w/LSRiskCategoryUnsafeExecutable did pop up the warning, but using it w/LSRiskCategoryNeutral didn't prevent pdf files from auto-opening. similarly, i couldn't get any key/string values to stop safari from auto-opening .gz or tar.gz files.

it seems like the user.plist file doesn't totally "override" the system one. where is the system config file, by the way?

If you are concerned with pdf, gz or tar.gz, why not simply disable the 'Open "safe" files after download' option in Safari?

Made many attempts on this, no luck.

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Chris

make sure you have converted your text file to flat text (cmd-shift-t) before saving it.

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Ian

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>LSRiskCategorySafe</key>
  <dict>
    <key>LSRiskCategoryExtensions</key>
    <array>
      <string>sit</string>
    </array>
  </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

This is not working, are downloads handled differently in the new safari 3?

It works for me. Be careful with the typing (I copied-and-pasted into Terminal), and make sure you're using the right values. Refer to the original posting on the Macenterprise site.

I just set up Safari to auto-open Google Earth .kml files, for example.