MakeMKV repeatedly asking permission to access folders, drives

[Analog Kid]

Anybody have a solution to the problem of MakeMKV constantly requesting access to Desktop, Documents, Downloads, network and removable drives? I give it permission in the Security/Privacy, but it keeps asking, over and over and over, even for individual operations. I tried reinstalling without luck.

If I keep clicking OK, eventually I get through, until I do anything that requires files again.

I see some references in their forums to the same problem dating back a year, but haven't found a solution.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I ran into the same problem with every disk I was ripping.

 

[bogdanw]

You can try to
-reset all permissions for the app

tccutil reset All com.makemkv.MakeMKV

-reset file access permissions for the app

tccutil reset SystemPolicyAllFiles com.makemkv.MakeMKV

- reset all permissions for file access

tccutil reset SystemPolicyAllFiles

- give the app full disk access

 

[Queen6]

Not used MakeMKV in an age but I think the answer's above as to stop the nagging full disk access is required.

Q-6

 

[Analog Kid]

I ran into the same problem with every disk I was ripping.

Freaking annoying, that is...

 

[Analog Kid]

You can try to
-reset all permissions for the app

tccutil reset All com.makemkv.MakeMKV

-reset file access permissions for the app

tccutil reset SystemPolicyAllFiles com.makemkv.MakeMKV

- reset all permissions for file access

tccutil reset SystemPolicyAllFiles

- give the app full disk access

"error: code object is not signed at all"

Removing the quarantine attribute didn't help either, not that I expected it would...

 

[Analog Kid]

Running makemkvcon at the command line seems to work without issue.

 

[bogdanw]

"error: code object is not signed at all"

What command returned that error?

 

[Analog Kid]

What command returned that error?

tccutil reset All com.makemkv.MakeMKV

Which I interpret as resetting all configurations for MakeMKV? I didn't execute the other two-- the second seemed a subset of the first and the third seemed to clear the entire database forcing every app to reauthorize?

 

[HDFan]

See (no fix yet):

Endless Permission requests that are never honored - www.makemkv.com

 

[bogdanw]

tccutil reset All com.makemkv.MakeMKV

I didn’t know tccutil doesn’t run for unsigned apps.
Try to remove all MakeMKV permissions from Security & Pirivacy - Files and Folders, then give the app Full Disk access.

 

[Analog Kid]

I didn’t know tccutil doesn’t run for unsigned apps.
Try to remove all MakeMKV permissions from Security & Pirivacy - Files and Folders, then give the app Full Disk access.

Yeah, I tried that, and it doesn't seem to help either...

See (no fix yet):

Endless Permission requests that are never honored - www.makemkv.com

Yeah, that seems to be the case... I think it does all tie back to not being a signed app, which is annoying.

I wonder if that means this is actually a bug on the OS side...

Seems the best approach from here is to maybe do some command line scripting to avoid all the clicking in the UI.

 

[Squatting8313]

"error: code object is not signed at all"

Removing the quarantine attribute didn't help either, not that I expected it would...

Registered here to reply to you. To fix this run the following

sudo xattr -cr /Applications/NameOfMakeMKV.app
find /Applications/NameOfMakeMKV.app -name "*" -execdir sudo codesign --force --deep --sign - {}\;
tccutil reset All com.makemkv.MakeMKV

Don't worry about any errors with the `find` command. This fixed it for me.

 

[Analog Kid]

Registered here to reply to you. To fix this run the following

sudo xattr -cr /Applications/NameOfMakeMKV.app
find /Applications/NameOfMakeMKV.app -name "*" -execdir sudo codesign --force --deep --sign - {}\;
tccutil reset All com.makemkv.MakeMKV

Don't worry about any errors with the `find` command. This fixed it for me.

Thanks for making the effort!

I suspect I need to be a registered developer to codesign the app though, right? "The specified item could not be found in the keychain"...

 

[HazardousT]

Registered here to reply to you. To fix this run the following

sudo xattr -cr /Applications/NameOfMakeMKV.app
find /Applications/NameOfMakeMKV.app -name "*" -execdir sudo codesign --force --deep --sign - {}\;
tccutil reset All com.makemkv.MakeMKV

Don't worry about any errors with the `find` command. This fixed it for me.

Because the code object is not signed at all it will not work.