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Subject: Re: emacsformacos: cannot access mac folders: Documents/Downloads
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> From: Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es>
> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 03:25:11 +0100
> 
> The reason is a security protection in recent versions of macOS where
> you need to grant explicit permission to applications if you want them
> to access your personal folders.  Go to System Preferences, Security &
> Privacy, Privacy, Full Disk Access.  Note that the Emacs launcher on
> macOS is actually a Ruby script, so you'd need to add /usr/bin/ruby
> there.

Should this information be in the Emacs user manual?