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I want to know where can I find my applications downloads logs? Like url that the application downloaded or downloading now

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This shows a list of URLs downloaded by applications that use quarantine events:

sqlite3 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEventsV* 'select LSQuarantineDataURLString from LSQuarantineEvent' | grep .

Files also have metadata for download locations:

find ~/Documents -name '*.pdf' -exec mdls -name kMDItemFSName -name kMDItemWhereFroms {} \;

This would show download locations only for files that have a quarantine attribute added by Safari:

find ~/Documents -name '*.pdf' | while read -r f; do xattr -p com.apple.quarantine "$f" 2> /dev/null | grep -q com.apple.Safari && { echo "$f"; mdls -name kMDItemWhereFroms "$f"; }; done

If others were searching for a log of installed packages or software updates, see /Library/Receipts/InstallHistory.plist.

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  • I got this: kMDItemFSName = "intel-ipartition-template-boot.dmg" kMDItemWhereFroms = (null) when I ran this command: find ~/Desktop/ -name '*.dmg' -exec mdls -name kMDItemFSName -name kMDItemWhereFroms {} \;
    – navid_gh
    Jun 13, 2013 at 8:50

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