Mojave: does Home folders access really need “Full Disk Access”?
Our cross-platform app needs to change the location of some default user entries: Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos. On Windows we achieve this goal using existing API (IKnownFolderManager). On macOS, we changed these default locations to shortcuts (the way others did it to use directly their DropBox or Google Drive: see this question). Mojave does not allow this technique anymore, at least for Pictures (it fails with EPERM), but there is a new Full Disk Access entitlement and an entry in System Preferences / Security & Privacy / Privacy / Full Disk Access where apps can be added.
My questions are:
- Is there an alternate solution to "Full Disk Access" to achieve the same goal (like a more limited entitlement maybe) ?
- Apparently, there's no default alert for this entitlement, unlike all the others ("Unfortunately, Apple has intentionally designed the process of granting Full Disk Access to be difficult, so that users are discouraged from granting Full Disk Access unless absolutely necessary.", seen here). Is that true?
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asked Nov 13 '18 at 10:17
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Our cross-platform app needs to change the location of some default user entries: Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos. On Windows we achieve this goal using existing API (IKnownFolderManager). On macOS, we changed these default locations to shortcuts (the way others did it to use directly their DropBox or Google Drive: see this question). Mojave does not allow this technique anymore, at least for Pictures (it fails with EPERM), but there is a new Full Disk Access entitlement and an entry in System Preferences / Security & Privacy / Privacy / Full Disk Access where apps can be added.
My questions are:
- Is there an alternate solution to "Full Disk Access" to achieve the same goal (like a more limited entitlement maybe) ?
- Apparently, there's no default alert for this entitlement, unlike all the others ("Unfortunately, Apple has intentionally designed the process of granting Full Disk Access to be difficult, so that users are discouraged from granting Full Disk Access unless absolutely necessary.", seen here). Is that true?
access-control macos-mojave entitlements code-signing-entitlements
asked Nov 13 '18 at 10:17
LiviuLiviu
1,0241035
I have accepted an answer on the apple.stackexchange site.
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Our cross-platform app needs to change the location of some default user entries: Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos. On Windows we achieve this goal using existing API (IKnownFolderManager). On macOS, we changed these default locations to shortcuts (the way others did it to use directly their DropBox or Google Drive: see this question). Mojave does not allow this technique anymore, at least for Pictures (it fails with EPERM), but there is a new Full Disk Access entitlement and an entry in System Preferences / Security & Privacy / Privacy / Full Disk Access where apps can be added.
My questions are:
- Is there an alternate solution to "Full Disk Access" to achieve the same goal (like a more limited entitlement maybe) ?
- Apparently, there's no default alert for this entitlement, unlike all the others ("Unfortunately, Apple has intentionally designed the process of granting Full Disk Access to be difficult, so that users are discouraged from granting Full Disk Access unless absolutely necessary.", seen here). Is that true?
access-control macos-mojave entitlements code-signing-entitlements
asked Nov 13 '18 at 10:17
LiviuLiviu
1,0241035
Our cross-platform app needs to change the location of some default user entries: Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos. On Windows we achieve this goal using existing API (IKnownFolderManager). On macOS, we changed these default locations to shortcuts (the way others did it to use directly their DropBox or Google Drive: see this question). Mojave does not allow this technique anymore, at least for Pictures (it fails with EPERM), but there is a new Full Disk Access entitlement and an entry in System Preferences / Security & Privacy / Privacy / Full Disk Access where apps can be added.
My questions are:
- Is there an alternate solution to "Full Disk Access" to achieve the same goal (like a more limited entitlement maybe) ?
- Apparently, there's no default alert for this entitlement, unlike all the others ("Unfortunately, Apple has intentionally designed the process of granting Full Disk Access to be difficult, so that users are discouraged from granting Full Disk Access unless absolutely necessary.", seen here). Is that true?
access-control macos-mojave entitlements code-signing-entitlements
access-control macos-mojave entitlements code-signing-entitlements
asked Nov 13 '18 at 10:17
LiviuLiviu
1,0241035
asked Nov 13 '18 at 10:17
LiviuLiviu
1,0241035
edited Nov 14 '18 at 12:32
Liviu
asked Nov 13 '18 at 10:17
LiviuLiviu
1,0241035
asked Nov 13 '18 at 10:17
LiviuLiviu
1,0241035
asked Nov 13 '18 at 10:17
LiviuLiviu
1,0241035
1,0241035
I have accepted an answer on the apple.stackexchange site.
– Liviu
Jan 2 at 9:30
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I have accepted an answer on the apple.stackexchange site.
– Liviu
Jan 2 at 9:30
I have accepted an answer on the apple.stackexchange site.
– Liviu
Jan 2 at 9:30
I have accepted an answer on the apple.stackexchange site.
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