I was recently asked to help with the annoying XtraFinder’s message “XtraFinder Beta has expired!” and make it disappear without user input. As what was suggested in the official support page did not work I went to see what is available online, Google is your friend, right!? 🙂
Well unfortunately I found only one good and interesting blog post on the subject involving Hopper Disassembler, but that did not worked for me, whatever I tried I did not manage to produce an executable file which will actually work. The tutorial is for XtraFinder version 0.25 where mine was 0.25.8 and though the assembler instructions and the function looked the same I think that matters.
As I am not an assembler guru I went back to the good old applescript to make a few clicks on behalf of a human 🙂 Please check the script below and change it if you need to. The script app has to be in your log in items and will/should work fine even after you upgrade to the latest version of XtraFinder, currently 0.25.9 /which by the way fixes the nag messages, until the time for the next update probably, which if not on time will probably start the receiving of the expire message again.. or may be not… :-)/.
So here we go:
delay 3
tell application “XtraFinder” to activate
delay 1
tell application “System Events”
 if exists (window 1 of process “XtraFinder”) then
 tell process “XtraFinder”
  set XfinderMess to the value of static text 1 of window 1 of application process “XtraFinder” of application “System Events”
  if XfinderMess = “System Integrity Protection is enabled.” then
  click button “OK” of window 1 of application process “XtraFinder” of application “System Events”
  delay 10
  tell application “System Events”
   if exists (window 1 of process “Finder”) then
   tell process “Finder”
    set finderMess1 to the value of static text 1 of window 1 of application process “Finder” of application “System Events”
    if finderMess1 = “XtraFinder Beta has expired!” then
    click button “OK” of window 1 of application process “Finder” of application “System Events”
    delay 6
    tell application “System Events”
     if exists (window 1 of process “Finder”) then
     tell process “Finder”
      set finderMess2 to the value of static text 1 of window 1 of application process “Finder” of application “System Events”
      if finderMess2 = “You’re up-to-date!” then
      click button “OK” of window 1 of application process “Finder” of application “System Events”
      end if
     end tell
     elseÂ
     quit
     end ifÂ
    end tell
    end if
   end tell
   else
   quit
   end if
  end tell
  end if
 end tell
 else
 quit
 end if
end tell
Enjoy 🙂
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