Re: emacsformacos: cannot access mac folders: Documents/Downloads

[Daniel Martín]

Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> Hi 
>
> This is sort of absurd, using the compiled emacsformacox I cannot access
> the Mac specific folders such as Documents, Downloads, while I can
> access the files inside these folders.
>
> However this does not happen with the version I compiled from master.
>
> What is the reason for this behaviour and how can I solve it?
>

The reason is a security protection in recent versions of macOS where
you need to grant explicit permission to applications if you want them
to access your personal folders.  Go to System Preferences, Security &
Privacy, Privacy, Full Disk Access.  Note that the Emacs launcher on
macOS is actually a Ruby script, so you'd need to add /usr/bin/ruby
there.