Would Acorn ever need "Full Disk Access"?

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Hi all, I’ve been reviewing the “Full Disk Access” settings on my iMacs and was surprised to see that on my main system I had Acorn in there, but not enabled. Is there any reason why I might have needed to do that? I can’t remember doing it, or why. Does anyone else have Acorn enabled for Full Disk Access?

The only reference that I could find on these forums was this 2022 thread: Suddenly unable to open Acorn files through Applescript or Terminal , where Gus suggests using “Full Disk Access” for Acorn to see if resolves an issue of not being able to open certain files. I haven’t done any scripting with Acorn, which was the context for that thread, so I’m a bit stumped.

Not particularly important, though, if no-one has any comments that is fine. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I’m not sure why it would be showing up in that list, and turned off automatically.

I’m the creator of Acorn, and I don’t even have Full Disk Access turned on. But scripting would be a good reason!

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Interesting, same here. MacOS 26.2. Was never asked, because had I been, Acorn would definitely been allowed.

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Just checked the three Macs I have Acorn on, and they all had Acorn listed under Full Disk Access, and it wasn’t enabled on any of them, making me think I was never prompted. Gus mention scripting as a possible culprit - I make heavy use of Keyboard Maestro with Acorn, so that could be the cause in my case.

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Thanks folks. So it doesn’t seem like Acorn appearing in my “Full Disk Access” list (not enabled) is unusual. I will assume that it hasn’t happened because of something foolish that I have done, and forgotten about. :blush: