Geany doesn’t have full hd access on MacOS

1. Problem

Xavier
1 min readFeb 21, 2020

Whenever I wanted to save a file on Desktop, an error message “Could not read the contents of Desktop Error opening directory ‘/Users/username/Desktop’: Operation not permitted” would show.

2. Reference

3. Solution

3.1 [System Preferences] →

3.2 [Security&Privacy] →

3.3 [Full Disk Access] →

3.4 Click the [+] sign →

3.5 Navigate to “/bin/bash”, and add it

3.5.1 If you can’t see hidden files, press [Shift + CMD + .]. 

3.6 Restart Geany and Done

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