Access to the path '/Volumes/GDEMU' is denied (macOS 11.4)

[sonik-br]

Access to the path '/Volumes/GDEMU' is denied (macOS 11.4)

[ticky]

Alright, this seems to be due to the double-layering of processes going on with the current application bundle; it's not possible to confer external disk access permissions to the GDMENUCardManager executable because the app bundle's executable is actually the GDMENU script.

Removing the GDMENUCardManager.app/Contents/MacOS/GDMENU wrapper script, moving the contents of the GDMENUCardManager.app/Contents/MacOS/GDMENUCardManager directory into the parent GDMENUCardManager.app/Contents/MacOS directory, and changing the CFBundleExecutable from GDMENU to GDMENUCardManager causes it to correctly prompt the user for external disk access:

And upon allowing, it will read as expected:

So, the revised GDMENUCardManager.app/Contents/Info.plist is like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>CFBundleDevelopmentRegion</key>
	<string>English</string>
	<key>CFBundleDisplayName</key>
	<string>GDMENU Card Manager</string>
	<key>CFBundleDocumentTypes</key>
	<array>
		<dict>
			<key>CFBundleTypeOSTypes</key>
			<array>
				<string>****</string>
				<string>fold</string>
				<string>disk</string>
			</array>
			<key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
			<string>Viewer</string>
		</dict>
	</array>
	<key>CFBundleExecutable</key>
	<string>GDMENUCardManager</string>
	<key>CFBundleIconFile</key>
	<string>icon</string>
	<key>CFBundleInfoDictionaryVersion</key>
	<string>6.0</string>
	<key>CFBundleName</key>
	<string>GDMENU Card Manager</string>
	<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
	<string>APPL</string>
	<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
	<string>1.3.3</string>
	<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
	<string>com.github.sonik-br.gdmenucardmanager</string>
	<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
	<string>1.3.3</string>
	<key>LSApplicationCategoryType</key>
	<string>public.app-category.utility</string>
	<key>NSSupportsAutomaticGraphicsSwitching</key>
	<true/>
	<key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key>
	<true/>
</dict>
</plist>

(Notable changes are the CFBundleExecutable being changed, and the addition of NSHighResolutionCapable, which is required for Retina display mode with this change)

And the contents of the GDMENUCardManager.app/Contents/MacOS folder is now what used to be the contents of the GDMENUCardManager.app/Contents/MacOS/GDMENUCardManager folder. The full directory listing of the app bundle now looks like this (ending with a * means executable):

Contents/

GDMENUCardManager.app/Contents:
Info.plist
MacOS/
Resources/

GDMENUCardManager.app/Contents/MacOS:
Avalonia.Animation.dll
Avalonia.Base.dll
Avalonia.Controls.DataGrid.dll
Avalonia.Controls.dll
Avalonia.DesignerSupport.dll
Avalonia.Desktop.dll
Avalonia.DesktopRuntime.dll
Avalonia.Dialogs.dll
Avalonia.FreeDesktop.dll
Avalonia.Input.dll
Avalonia.Interactivity.dll
Avalonia.Layout.dll
Avalonia.Markup.Xaml.dll
Avalonia.Markup.dll
Avalonia.MicroCom.dll
Avalonia.Native.dll
Avalonia.OpenGL.dll
Avalonia.Remote.Protocol.dll
Avalonia.Skia.dll
Avalonia.Styling.dll
Avalonia.Themes.Default.dll
Avalonia.Themes.Fluent.dll
Avalonia.Visuals.dll
Avalonia.Win32.dll
Avalonia.X11.dll
Avalonia.dll
ByteSize.dll
GDMENUCardManager*
GDMENUCardManager.Core.dll
GDMENUCardManager.deps.json
GDMENUCardManager.dll
GDMENUCardManager.runtimeconfig.json
HarfBuzzSharp.dll
JetBrains.Annotations.dll
MessageBox.Avalonia.dll
Microsoft.Win32.Primitives.dll
Microsoft.Win32.SystemEvents.dll
SOS_README.md
SharpCompress.dll
SkiaSharp.dll
System.Collections.Concurrent.dll
System.Collections.Immutable.dll
System.Collections.NonGeneric.dll
System.Collections.Specialized.dll
System.Collections.dll
System.ComponentModel.Annotations.dll
System.ComponentModel.Primitives.dll
System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter.dll
System.ComponentModel.dll
System.Console.dll
System.Diagnostics.DiagnosticSource.dll
System.Diagnostics.Process.dll
System.Diagnostics.StackTrace.dll
System.Diagnostics.Tools.dll
System.Diagnostics.TraceSource.dll
System.Drawing.Common.dll
System.Drawing.Primitives.dll
System.Globalization.Native.dylib
System.IO.Compression.Brotli.dll
System.IO.Compression.Native.a
System.IO.Compression.Native.dylib
System.IO.Compression.dll
System.IO.FileSystem.DriveInfo.dll
System.IO.FileSystem.dll
System.IO.MemoryMappedFiles.dll
System.Linq.Expressions.dll
System.Linq.Queryable.dll
System.Linq.dll
System.Memory.dll
System.Native.a
System.Native.dylib
System.Net.Http.Native.a
System.Net.Http.Native.dylib
System.Net.Http.dll
System.Net.NameResolution.dll
System.Net.Primitives.dll
System.Net.Requests.dll
System.Net.Security.Native.a
System.Net.Security.Native.dylib
System.Net.Security.dll
System.Net.ServicePoint.dll
System.Net.Sockets.dll
System.Net.WebHeaderCollection.dll
System.Numerics.Vectors.dll
System.ObjectModel.dll
System.Private.CoreLib.dll
System.Private.DataContractSerialization.dll
System.Private.Uri.dll
System.Private.Xml.Linq.dll
System.Private.Xml.dll
System.Reactive.dll
System.Reactive.xml
System.Reflection.Metadata.dll
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe.dll
System.Runtime.Extensions.dll
System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation.dll
System.Runtime.InteropServices.WindowsRuntime.dll
System.Runtime.InteropServices.dll
System.Runtime.Numerics.dll
System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.dll
System.Runtime.Serialization.Primitives.dll
System.Runtime.dll
System.Security.Claims.dll
System.Security.Cryptography.Algorithms.dll
System.Security.Cryptography.Encoding.dll
System.Security.Cryptography.Native.Apple.a
System.Security.Cryptography.Native.Apple.dylib
System.Security.Cryptography.Native.OpenSsl.a
System.Security.Cryptography.Native.OpenSsl.dylib
System.Security.Cryptography.Primitives.dll
System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.dll
System.Security.Principal.Windows.dll
System.Security.Principal.dll
System.Text.Encoding.CodePages.dll
System.Text.Json.dll
System.Text.RegularExpressions.dll
Tmds.DBus.dll
gdishrink_blacklist.txt
libAvaloniaNative.dylib
libHarfBuzzSharp.dylib
libSkiaSharp.dylib
libclrjit.dylib
libcoreclr.dylib
libdbgshim.dylib
libhostfxr.dylib
libhostpolicy.dylib
libmscordaccore.dylib
libmscordbi.dylib
tools/

GDMENUCardManager.app/Contents/MacOS/tools:
IP.BIN
menu_data/
menu_gdi/

GDMENUCardManager.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/menu_data:
1ST_READ.BIN
readme.txt

GDMENUCardManager.app/Contents/MacOS/tools/menu_gdi:
disc.gdi
track01.iso
track02.raw
track03.iso
track04.raw

GDMENUCardManager.app/Contents/Resources:
icon.icns

[Pistacchione]

Yep, it works now, thanks to @sonik-br and @ticky !

[sonik-br]

Hi.
This might be related to #8
I still can't figure out what causes the problem.

Can you do the same test with version 1.3.0 or 1.3.1 ?

[Pistacchione]

Hi,

I think you can workaround this issue as described here #11

[ticky]

This isn't anything to do with #11, this is likely to do with modern macOS requiring user consent for programs to access external drives

[Pistacchione]

This isn't anything to do with #11, this is likely to do with modern macOS requiring user consent for programs to access external drives

The strange thing is that if you launch it via command ./GDMENUCardManager.app/Contents/MacOS/GDMENU line it works

Maybe @sonik-br should do some changing in the source code to handle user consent on macOS?

[ticky]

That'll be because it's inheriting permissions from your terminal emulator

[sonik-br]

That's great!
I've updated the AppBundle.tar.gz file.
Can you test it again just to make sure I've packed it the right way?

[ticky]

Yep, that seems to work! 👍🏼

[sonik-br]

Great!
Thanks @ticky and @Pistacchione for helping with this issue!

I will wait for @YunaVirtua to test it too but it should work.

[YunaVirtua]

I can confirm it works as it should now