Enabling Cookie5 on macOS Mojave (10.14)

Macfredx

Same problem for me, Cookie (not from the Mac App Store) is no more useful for me since Mojave (even the last beta, 5.9.9.4), it always ask me for for full disk access. I've tried several time even with your method of 11-29-2018, without success...
Still no solution ?

SweetP

@Macfredx have you tried a computer restart? that can sometimes fix these strange issues

Macfredx

Yes, I tried several times, without any effect.

edray

I also can't get this to work no matter what. I've repeatedly deleted it from "Full Disk Access", closed the app, dragged it back to full disk access, relaunched both with and without rebooting and I always get the Cookie needs extra permissions dialog.

SweetP

@edray do you have multiple copies of cookie on your computer? Perhaps even a time machine disk attached may cause issues?

Macfredx

No other copies of Cookie for me...

SweetP

this is really strange?
maybe try a full reset of Cookie, and see if that helps:
delete this folder:
~~~/Library/Contains.com.sweetpproductions.Cookie5~~
~/Library/Containers/com.sweetpproductions.Cookie5

you will lose all your settings and favourites, and will need to reconfigure. But, if you export your favorites before you delete the folder, you can import them once you restart Cookie

Macfredx

Sorry, but i don't find the folder ~/Library/Contains.com.sweetpproductions.Cookie5 !

SweetP

@Macfredx my mistake, the folder should be:
~/Library/Containers/com.sweetpproductions.Cookie5

Macfredx

Great, it seems to work. I will confirm it after a while.
Thanks for your help.

Macfredx

Well, I confirm that Cookie5 works great again.
Thanks again for your help.

SweetP

@Macfredx perfect!

edray

@SweetP I had a box.com directory with all purchased software. I had deleted the cookie.dmg file and replaced it with a text file with a download link. I had a very old copy of cookie in a paddle bundle I purchased in 2013, but I deleted those too. Went back into system prefs deleted it from full disk access and dragged it from the application directory to full disk access again - quit and restarted and I still have the same problem.

SweetP

@edray do you have any Safari bookmarks?
the reason I ask, is Cookie checks to see if the bookmarks file is accessible. If it is not, Cookie assumes you need to enable Full Disk Access.

edray

I have lots of safari bookmarks and they're synced through iCloud.