Using latest version of SQL Developer on macOS (Catalina) and (both JDK 11 and 8) getting
I/O Error
The directory /Users/<username>/Documents is not accessible
Please select a different directory
My permissions are -
drwx------+ 4 XXXX staff 128B 20 Nov 10:32 Movies
drwx------+ 4 XXXX staff 128B 20 Nov 14:09 Music
drwx------@ 9 XXXX staff 288B 21 Nov 13:43 Documents
drwx------+ 4 XXXX staff 128B 21 Nov 14:51 Desktop
drwx------@ 11 XXXX staff 352B 21 Nov 16:19 Downloads
The strange thing is I can access Movies and Music without an issue and they have the same permissions...but not the @ sign , this is what I have -
drwx------@ 9 XXXX staff 288B 21 Nov 13:43 Documents
com.apple.macl 72B
drwx------@ 10 XXXX staff 320B 21 Nov 18:58 Downloads
com.apple.macl 72B
It seems the @ sign means this -
The com.apple.macl extended attribute is governed by System Integrity Protection, so the only way to delete it is to disable SIP, or boot into another volume and delete it from there. Thus, once you implicitly grant special access to a file, you can't easily revoke that special access.
If I run the SQL Developer from the command line -
/Applications/SQLDeveloper.app/Contents/MacOS/sqldeveloper.sh
This allows me to access the Documents and Download directories (however it does ask me to give permission to access both directories to the application I used for run the shell script and NOT to SQL Developer)
e.g. Terminal
I get the same problem on earlier versions of SQL Developer.
This was working on a system which was upgraded to Catalina, however I've had to rebuild the laptop and now this does now work when using Vanilla Catalina.