Apple - How can we force MacOS to forget that a specific file was downloaded from the web?
You can delete the download source by running
xattr -d com.apple.metadata:kMDItemWhereFroms FILENAME
To also remove the quarantine flag use
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine FILENAME
PS: If FILENAME
is an application (ends in .app
), add -r
to have the attributes removed from all files within the application.