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


From: Uwe Brauer
Subject: Re: emacsformacos: cannot access mac folders: Documents/Downloads
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 08:24:13 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>>> "DM" == Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> writes:

> 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.

Thanks, but precisely to add /usr/bin/ruby seem almost impossible the
interface does not allow you to add a simple string.

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