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Mass-unblock files via Powershell
posted on December 3rd 2020, at 21:21
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lunarg
When downloading files from the internet or copying them from a (foreign) server, these files will be marked as blocked by default.
Each file can be unblocked by right-clicking the file and manually selecting unblock, but what if you have a whole bunch of files to unblock? In that case you can use Powershell:
Get-Item -Path "$env:windir\Fonts\*" -Stream "Zone.Identifier" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | % { Unblock-File -Path $_.FileName }
The oneliner above consists of two parts:
The flag that says whether or not a file is blocked is stored in a hidden NTFS-stream called Zone.Identifier, which is stored for each individual file. By looking for those hidden streams,
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