User removal of security scoped bookmark

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Created Oct ’23

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Hi, is it possible for a user to remove the implicit permission he or she gave to an app after opening a folder using a standard dialog? I'm asking this because a discussion took place with actual users reasonably arguing that the action may have been a mistake, not intentional at all, so at least we should give them a way to revert what was wrongly interpreted as intent. I believe that they are right and there should be a simple user-level way of doing that. So I looked for a way to remove the bookmark from the command line but to no avail. Thanks, Carlos.

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DTS Engineer OP

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Oct ’23

It seems you asked a slightly different variant of this question over here. I’m responding again here because it’s not quite the same question.

Oh, and as I mentioned there, see On File System Permissions for terminology.

You wrote:

User removal of security scoped bookmark

is it possible for a user to remove the implicit permission he or she gave to an app after opening a folder using a standard dialog?

So, there are two things in play here:

Security-scoped bookmarks
The extended attributes used by MAC

In the other thread you mentioned VSCode, which isn’t sandboxed and probably does nothing with security-scoped bookmarks. Hence my response there was focused on the MAC extended attributes.

However, the answer for security-scoped bookmarks is effectively the same: There’s no supported user-level way to revoke such a bookmark. The difference here is that the app gets to store the bookmark wherever it wants, so it’s not visible as an extended attribute in the file system.

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