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Snow Leopard quirk prevents opening groups of recently downloaded files

Filed under: Snow Leopard Reports of an odd bug affecting downloaded files in Snow Leopard have been circulating Apple’s discussion boards recently. As reported by TidBITS , the issue appears to be affecting all computers running Snow Leopard. While different users have reported varying symptoms and differing circumstances, it essentially boils down to this: if you download a group of files, and then attempt to open the entire group of files at once (rather than opening each file individually), chances are either some or all of the selected files will not open. My initial response to this was that it could possibly be one of those “it’s not a bug, it’s a feature” ordeals. We have already seen some indications that Apple is working on enhanced security and virus protection in Snow Leopard , so it stands to reason that the operating system may be simply trying to prevent what it thinks is malicious activity by imposing restrictions on what you can and can’t do with a newly downloaded file.