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If you’re using Yoink on macOS Sequoia, you might have encountered an issue where Yoink would not accept any files anymore:

Or if you’re using Transloader on macOS Sequoia, you might find your Link- and File Actions not working correctly:

Basically any app that handles file URLs and saves them as a security-scoped bookmark for later access can be bitten by this bug, currently occurring on macOS 15.0 and 15.0.1.

This is caused by a bug in the macOS daemon process called “ScopedBookmarkAgent”, according to a CoreOS engineer on macOS, as stated on the Apple Developer Forums:

What you’re hitting is bug in “ScopedBookmarksAgent” [sic] which can cause it hang if it happens to have been launched when the keychain was also locked (for example, late in the screen lock process). That bug is fixed as of macOS 15.1 beta 4.

– DTS Engineer, CoreOS/Hardware

The downside is that 3rd party developers like myself cannot fix this in their apps. Apple has to, in macOS.
The upside is that with macOS 15.1, the bug will reportedly be fixed and things should work as they used to.

As a temporary workaround, you can:
– Quit Yoink (or any other afflicted app)
– Using Activity Monitor.app, quit the ScopedBookmarkAgent process
– Relaunch Yoink (or any other afflicted app), and it should work again (for a while)

My apologies for the inconvenience. Here’s to hoping macOS 15.1 will be released soon.

Cheers,
– Matthias

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macOS 15 Sequoia introduced a new, annoying screen capture permission reminder that has brought on a lot of push-back from developers (myself included).

Now, Ricci Adams has found a way to virtually stop the nagging for specific apps. (I found out about this from Jeff Johnson’s Desolation of Blog blog).

First things first: Please use your own discretion when trying this. Consider if you’re savvy enough to work with the Terminal, and if you really want to remove the permission reminder for an app.

Apparently, there is a TCC (Transparency, Consent and Control) – protected file that keeps track of when to show the next nag screen for specific screen capturing apps, located at

~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.replayd/ScreenCaptureApprovals.plist

Using Terminal (which first needs to be granted Full Disk Access in System Settings > Privacy & Security), you can set that date far into the future so you won’t ever see the nag again.

For example, I wanted to make absolutely sure it never bothers me again for my own app ScreenFloat, so I just set it to my retirement date: January 1st, 4321.

defaults write ~/Library/Group\ Containers/group.com.apple.replayd/ScreenCaptureApprovals.plist "/Applications/ScreenFloat.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenFloat/" -date "4321-01-01 00:00:00 +0000"

Restart your Mac (or log out and back in) so it accepts the new defaults, and you’re all set.

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