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  • Unwanted warning messages: How to stop?

    From Terry ( BT)@t.pinnell@btinternet.com to alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Tue Jan 13 13:53:22 2026
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    Working in one particular folder (C:\Users\terry\Dropbox\3D Printing) is becoming really tedious.

    Copying or moving any file or subfolder within it to or from anywhere
    else generates a pesky message that "files downloaded from the internet
    may be harmful...blah blah". Only a couple of clicks but over time a
    real PITA.

    I abandoned productive work yesterday morning and so far failed to find
    a solution. Despite many hours with ChatGPT, prolific with suggestions i
    tried, but whose unbounded confidence and countless 'final perfect'
    solutions have failed to fix it. There are some 4,400 files in 3D
    Printing, spread over a dozen or so subfolders. A few appear to have
    escaped the unwanted (and IMO daft warnings, making isolation of the
    root cause elusive.

    Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045.6691)

    Terry, UK
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  • From R.Wieser@address@is.invalid to alt.comp.os.windows-10 on Tue Jan 13 15:40:25 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.comp.os.windows-10

    Terry,

    Copying or moving any file or subfolder within it to or from anywhere
    else generates a pesky message that "files downloaded from the internet
    may be harmful...blah blah".

    The root cause is AFIK that those files are marked (in an attached
    "alternate data stream" (ADS) file) as being /potentially/ dangerous.

    Maybe the below is be usefull to you :

    https://thegeekpage.com/disable-blocking-of-downloading-files-in-windows-10/

    Regards,
    Rudy Wieser


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