Cookie 6 not recognizing "Full disk Access"

SweetP

workerBee

@LEoM I restarted with no luck. Stuck in an infinite loop trying to "Enable" for Safari.

StuFried

I had this problem after initially upgrading to Cookie6 but it was resolved.

BUT NOW, after allowing AppStore to upgrade me to 6.0.12, I am back in the loop of having to grant access.
System level is macOS 10.15.3
Cookie does have full disk access. I have quit Cookie, removed disk access, restarted system. Doesn't help.
I have had to disable Cookie to get ANY work done.

SweetP

@StuFried does the cookie file exist?

~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.binarycookies

StuFried

@SweetP Yes it does. But it has a creation date of today. Unless it is destroyed at browser quit I would have expected it to have an older creation date

StuFried

@SweetP Its been 4 days since I answered your question. Any ideas?

StuFried

@SweetP Hey @SweetP,
Wanted to update that I stopped the app, removed the permissions, removed application (using AppCleaner), restarted my computer, downloaded the app from the App Store.
Now I can not even enable Safari (Firefox and Chrome are OK), and it STILL does not recognize that it has "Full Disk Access" granted

SweetP

@StuFried are you running Safari in private browsing mode?

AF

Same problem here, tried full uninstall / run maintenance tools / reboots. Cookie v6.0.12 on Catalina 10.15.4.

SweetP

Cookie checks for the existence of Safari‘s Cookie file. Does it exist on your computer:
~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.binaryCookies

AF

@SweetP Hello Russel, many thanks, great, that did the trick! There was a Cookies.binaryCookies file, but it had a corrupt ending. I deleted all ookies.binaryCookies versions and all is working! Thanks for the quick help. Kind regards, A

SweetP

@AF perfect!

StuFried

@SweetP no, I am not running in private browsing mode.

Something eventually shook loose and I am back running as I want with 3 browsers enabled for automatic removal.

JML

I could fix this after migrating to a new MacBook Pro with Catalina only by a complete removal of Cookie and a completely new installation. It was driving me nuts once Cookie was opened at boot - I had to shut it down with Activity Monitor.

JML

I forgot to note that removing the Cookies.binaryCookies file alone did not help, but after deleting Cookie (via AppCleaner) and reinstalling it was OK.

richardchiswell

@SweetP Thank you - that has been very helpful and all seems to be working okay now. Regards, R