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Stefan38115767bgmu
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June 18, 2024
Question

Security Warning when opening .pdx files I've compiled myself

  • June 18, 2024
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I work with a large documentation set and have created multiple indexes to be able to quickly search content for keywords, etc. across this massive set of data.

 

Since some time, doubleclicking any of the numerous .pdx files (I've created myself with Adobe Catalog) I'm presented with a modal security warning dialog.

 

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Security Warning
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The operation you are trying to perform potentially requires read access to your drives. Do you want to allow this operation?
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Allow Block
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Can this warning be disabled (I'm the creator of those .pdx files) so that I get to the search with one step less (having to click on "Allow")?

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2 replies

Meenakshi_Negi
Meenakshi_Negi
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June 19, 2024

Hi Stefan38115767bgmu,

 

Thank you for reaching out.

 

Please let us know if you have started experiencing this behavior recently. Share the Acrobat and OS version.

Could you confirm if it happens with other files or a particular one?

 

Thanks,

Meenakshi

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Stefan38115767bgmuAuthor
Participant
June 20, 2024

I can confirm clearing the "Enable Protected Mode at startup" in preferences help.

 

This problem strike indexes I created several years ago on one of my older and now retired corporate laptops (I occasionally rebuild the indexes as needed) as well as indexes I create as new today on a one month old corporate laptop running Windows 11 (23H2 OS build 22631.3593) where I just recently installed Adobe (24.002.20759)

 

This problem should easily be reproducible.

Bernd Alheit
Community Expert
Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
Community Expert
June 18, 2024

In the preferences of Acrobat disable the protection mode.

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    Stefan38115767bgmuAuthor
    Participant
    June 18, 2024

    Danke Bernd.

    I'm new to this "Protection Mode" and have fiddled around some with it without success, e.g. I tried to insert the .pdx folder path as "trusted location" but it didn't work. Isn't there any finer granularity than bluntly calling for "firewall off"? Can't I disable the .pdx inspection only instead of tearing down everything?

    Bernd Alheit
    Community Expert
    Bernd AlheitCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 19, 2024

    I don't know.

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