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| action:Open_a_File_Folder_or_Application [2024/04/30 01:59] – peternlewis | action:Open_a_File_Folder_or_Application [2024/04/30 03:55] (current) – peternlewis |
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| | ====== Open a File Folder or Application Action ====== |
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| The //Open a File Folder or Application// action allows you to open an item and to select the application to open it with. | The //Open a File Folder or Application// action allows you to open an item and to select the application to open it with. |
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| Select from the //with// pop-up which application to open the item with. | Select from the //with// pop-up which application to open the item with. |
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| (!) Note that in Sonoma, if the file has the quarantine bit security feature set (which you can check with the shell command `xattr -p com.apple.quarantine /path/to/file`), then the system API used to open the file with an application will fail with error -128 (user canceled - presumably because the system API does not know how to ask permission). You can remove the security settings with the shell command `xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/file`. | |
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| (!) Note that this is almost never the right action to use to launch an application. Instead, use the [[action:Activate_a_Specific_Application|Activate a Specific Application]] action, which will both launch and activate the application. If you really want to use this action, ensure you select the Finder as the application to use to “open” the application - otherwise the system may try to open the application as a document using some other application, which is highly unlikely to be what you want to do (except in very rare circumstances, like perhaps opening an application with a compression utility to compress it for network transport). | (!) Note that this is almost never the right action to use to launch an application. Instead, use the [[action:Activate_a_Specific_Application|Activate a Specific Application]] action, which will both launch and activate the application. If you really want to use this action, ensure you select the Finder as the application to use to “open” the application - otherwise the system may try to open the application as a document using some other application, which is highly unlikely to be what you want to do (except in very rare circumstances, like perhaps opening an application with a compression utility to compress it for network transport). |
