[ciarain]

When working in Tiger or Panther if I click on a document eg: word, illustrator, photoshop, indesign. and the application that is supposed to open this document is not open already. You get a warning message. that says "you are opening application "xyz" for the first time are you sure you want to open it. " Even though this is not the first time the application has been launched. However if you launch the application from the applications folder or from the dock the warning does not appear.
How do you disable this warning or at least correctly inform the OS that the application has been opened before.

I think this showed up first around 10.3.5 any suggestions

[JKT]

This is a security warning to prevent e.g. trojans from launching a malware application without your knowledge. You don't want to disable it. If you are getting this warning every single time you launch an application, then there is something wrong with your install. However, be aware that if you update an application, the next time you double click a file to open it, you will receive the warning again. Does that sound like anything that has happened (e.g. an updater for Office was released this week, so did you apply it?).

[ciarain]

This happens from clean installs and those that have their launch services database cleared the link from document to application survives a logout but not a restart. I know it is a security feature and not a bug but it would be nice to know where this cache/.plist is and why it is suffering from amnesia.

Textedit does not exhibit this behavior across installs but any other app does I get the warning whether it is a user with a local home directory or a user with a network home directory

[dru]

This seems to happen after updates too, fwiw.

[ciarain]

Have asked Apple about this they say it has been referred to engineering. Any other suggestions out there

[ciarain]

Changed Ownership on application from admin to system thus bypassing launchservices no more do you want to etc.
Thanks Bill and Beans