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

[Daniel Martín]

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

>
>> 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.

Click on the plus sign ('+') and then press Shift+Command+G.  A prompt
will appear where you can type "/usr/bin/ruby" to go to that location.