MacOS Ventura - Terminal Preferences not saving (and other apps) about mackup

[matthewmrichter]

Just to clarify, for Ventura my process to accomplish what @dnicolson suggested:

1. Go to Settings->Privacy/Security->Full Disk Access
2. Click the plus sign under the list of apps
3. Enter admin credentials as needed
4. When file picker shows up, press Cmd-Shift-G
5. Enter filenam

Confirmed the backup works after this!

[dnicolson]

It's located at /usr/sbin/cfprefsd, you can find it with which cfprefsd.

In Full Disk Access, you can hit Command-G and paste /usr/sbin/cfprefsd.

[erickinsella]

Unfortunately, for me giving cfprefsd full access didn't solve the issues I'm seeing with IntelliJ.

[anthonysomerset]

so oddly - i can get this to work by granting cfprefsd full disk access - which feels entirely incorrect......

[matthewmrichter]

My mac is managed by my company, I don't seem to be able to give cfprefsd full access, so my temporary fix is to just add terminal to [applications_to_ignore] :( Will monitor this issue for updates..

[erickinsella]

@anthonysomerset Where's cfprefsd located such that I can give it access? When I search to add it I'm not finding it.

[anthonysomerset]

interesting logs from console for Terminal from cfprefsd

rejecting write of key(s) NSWindow Frame TTWindow Basic in { com.apple.Terminal, asomerset, kCFPreferencesAnyHost, /Users/asomerset/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist, managed: 0 } from process 15121 (Terminal) because Path not accessible
99 duplicate reports for System Policy: cfprefsd(589) deny(1) file-read-data /Users/asomerset/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/ConfigSync/Mackup/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist

certainly looks to be some kind of permissions issue

[dnicolson]

Granting cfprefsd Full Disk Access allows apps to save preferences again, the symlinks are then replaced with regular files though as in #1854.

[anthonysomerset]

good point - i just noticed that now

[godbout]

finding the same issue with Xcode. can't read/save the plist from the new Dropbox location properly.

[erickinsella]

Finding a similar issue with IntelliJ. Did granting cfprefsd Full Disk Access continue to work or have any side effects?

[spuder]

Related #1924