Re: Cannot sync macOS user folder

"'Stefan Messmer' via unison-users" <[email protected]>
writes:

> I am trying to sync the user folder of 2 Mac's. On my Mac mini server I 
> have the CLI version of unison and on the MacBook Air I have the GUI 
> version, both installed with HomeBrew and both version 2.53.7. Both Mac's 
> run under macOS 26.2.
> Some Folder sync as expected, but the following folder cannot be synced 
> (blocked, probably on the server):
>
>    - Downloads
>    - Documents
>    - Desktop 
>
> I suppose it is due to security settings. How can I circumvent these 
> security settings?

This really sounds like a macOS problem.

I suggest first figuring out things with the CLI in Terminal.
Check to see if in terminal you can read those files, and then ssh to
server and look at them there.  If that doesn't work, then you have to
fix that before unison.

Probably also rsync and scp are similarly troubled.


Open settings and look for messages about Terminal and all-files access.
This is macOS trying to be helpful and deny programs you are running
under terminal access to your super-secret files, which might help some,
but that is exactly what you are trying to do.

I may get to trying this later today.   I don't sync homedirs, but
instead ~/shared/foo for various foo, and that doesn't have problems
from this macOS security feature.

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