{"id":4930,"date":"2025-08-12T14:55:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/?p=4930"},"modified":"2025-08-12T14:55:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:55:26","slug":"ufocus-why-am-i-getting-a-apple-could-not-verify-file-is-free-of-malware-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/ufocus-why-am-i-getting-a-apple-could-not-verify-file-is-free-of-malware-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Why am I getting a &#8220;Apple could not verify [file] is free of malware&#8221; alert?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may get this alert when you try to open a file in the Finder after setting uFocus (or any other app) as the default app via <em>File > Open With > Other&#8230;<\/em>, then select uFocus and enable the option <em>Always Open With<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/finder-malware-alert.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4931\" style=\"width:372px\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This may be (according to an Apple engineer on the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/forums\/\/thread\/795994?login=true\">Developer Forums<\/a>) a security feature, and is not specific to uFocus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To open the file anyway, open the System Settings, select the Privacy &amp; Security tab, scroll down and click <em>Open Anyway<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1654\" height=\"1440\" src=\"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/system-settings-blocked-file.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4932\" style=\"width:827px\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may get this alert when you try to open a file in the Finder after setting uFocus (or any other app) as the default app via File > Open With > Other&#8230;, then select uFocus and enable the option Always Open With. This may be (according to an Apple engineer on the Developer Forums) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ufocus-help"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4933,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions\/4933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desairem.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}