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jonhohle • yesterday at 1:55 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I have a disk monitoring app that also gives quick access or the ability to eject external drives. Without Full Disk Access, you can’t open a Finder window to the root of the external drive. You can open the parent and select the disk mount point.

I burned a support request on this years ago, and was told that it seemed like a good idea for a future update… a API to open a Finder window at a known path.

macOS used to be one of the most power tool friendly operating systems. Apple Events and AppleScript dictionaries made automation like this so easy. Now everything requires a special permission or specialized Kit to do things that were simple two decades ago.


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junofan • yesterday at 4:38 PM

Personally I’m switching to Omarchy the minute they’ve got an Apple silicon image. Been on macOS since the 90s. I just want to be able to tell the papercuts to go away. Not confident in Apple’s ability to scratch that itch anymore.