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elptacek on Feb 3, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X

ETA: Yeah... I can't make this stick. So it kinda-sorta works, but is not a real workaround. Guess I'm glad I kept testing it...

I found a workaround:

defaults write $DOMAIN DisableDataDetectors YES

Credit goes to: http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/data-detectors-in-ma... The following works for Adium:

defaults write com.adiumX.adiumX DisableDataDetectors YES

ETA: Doesn't seem to persist. Might be sleep/awake or some sort of refresh/timeout. Investigating...

elptacek on Feb 4, 2013 [–]

Tested this a bit more. It seems to work on Adium "only some of the time." I am told it works for Colloquy. It does not work for the Google Chrome Browser, TextEdit or Mail.

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