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> It'd be great if the app would only have read access to my files, not full disk permission.

I'm running it right now and macOS didn't ask for any permissions at all which afaik means that it cannot access most of my personal folders and definitely not the full disk. Am I missing something?




> I'm running it right now and macOS didn't ask for any permissions at all which afaik means that it cannot access most of my personal folders and definitely not the full disk. Am I missing something?

This is only true if it uses App Sandbox, which is mandatory for apps distributed through the App Store, but not necessarily everything else




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