Epsilon for macOS and Privacy-protected Folders

When you run Epsilon for macOS, a helper program runs first and manages starting Epsilon. Starting in 10.15 Catalina, macOS uses a privacy system to keep programs from accessing privacy-protected folders like Downloads, Documents, or Desktop. Epsilon's startup helper tries to ensure it's running in a privacy context that permits macOS to ask for your permission before Epsilon can access these. (If not, macOS will either block Epsilon from accessing such folders, or apply the privacy context of some other program like Terminal.)

For this to work, XQuartz must be installed (so Epsilon runs as an X11 program), and you must either start Epsilon from its icon, or else (for command-line invocation), without using sudo. If you're connecting to your Mac over an ssh connection, that will also keep macOS from selecting Epsilon's privacy context.

You can change your privacy selections for Epsilon under System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Files and Folders, or let Epsilon access all files by manually adding it to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Full Disk Access.

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