Where does Apple warn the user that four stray files in an unprotected folder are specially protected by the Sandbox kernel extension?
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Additional to the protected folders listed in the Privacy pane, macOS has a secret list of files which are also read-only. Apple hasn’t documented these.
When a file’s permissions are set to allow the user to write to it, but an app testing whether the file is writable is told that it isn’t.
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Q: Can an app running from this user account read/write this file? It should be simple to answer, but reality isn’t as kind.
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Apple has changed its instructions for resetting/repairing permissions on your Home folder, and important cure for many problems.
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