Cookie 6 not recognizing "Full disk Access"

Gilles9

Just started Cookie 6
I am registered, activated and all

I gave Cookie ( which is Cookie 6 ) Full disk access in system prefrences

It still not recognized it has full disk access, and keeps asking to enable it

I am stuck

vendini

Exactly same issue here!

ghostblog

Exactly the same problem here.

LEoM

Same problem here on Mojave, solved by restarting. Once I did that, Safari was accepted and enabled.

SweetP

Make sure you move Cookie 5 to the trash,
then try to remove/re-add Cookie to System Preferences
lastly, restart your computer

iml

after giving Cookie 6 'full access' had to reboot my computer to get Safari accepted (not just restart Cookie)

dpdpdp

Similar issues here. Firefox and Chrome got added with no problem, but Safari kept asking me to grant full disk access no matter how many times I did so. I restarted as LEoM suggested. Clicking for Safari access then produced a prolonged spinning beachball, but one that did resolve itself and it seems to be working now.

SweetP

for everyone still with issues,
here is the nuclear option, which may help:

A full reset:

Move Cookie 5 to the trash
Export your favourites using the small heart icon in the bottom right of the “Websites” tab
Quit Cookie
Remove Cookie, and Cookie 5 from System Preferences (Full Disk Access)
Delete this folder: ~/Library/Contaniers/com.sweetpproductions.cookieapp
Restart your computer
Then open Cookie,and run through the setup again.
import your favorites back in using the same heart icon

smolk

The nuclear option still does not resolve the issue: Safari cannot be enabled.
Brave and Opera had no problems, Firefox was helped by the nuclear option.
I mainly use Brave, but airdrop always requires Safari, and some websites require Firefox to be used.

SweetP

@smolk Cookie checks that it has access to the Safari Cookie file:
~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.binarycookies

If that file does not exist, Cookie assumes it does not have Full Disk Access.

Also some users have found that if when enabling browsers - NOT selecting the Global permissions option, but selecting specific folder helps. If you initially opted to give Cookie Global access, try this:

open the Advanced tab in Preferences
click the Remove all Sandbox Permissions button.
restart Cookie.
enable specificities folder permissions for each browser

smolk

That file did not exist, but files with the same name but a temp ending did. Renaming one did not help.
But then I deleted all (app, container files) and reinstalled everything from scratch and noticed the file ~/Library/Cookies/Cookies.binarycookies did not exist.
Thought once, then opened a website in Safari - and the file came into being. I immediately had Safari enabled.
The file is indeed the crux and it is created by actually using Safari.