Thanks Tim!
Problem solved.
I did as you suggest and added Pharo.app (and Squeak*.app) to the "Files and Folders” and tried again.
That resolved the primary issue but when opening File Browser I got a different exception referring to /.VolumeIcon.icns not being able to be opened.
The volume was my boot partition and in Catalina that is a readonly filesystem.
I looked at that file with ls and file commands, and it turns out that it was a broken link to the same file in the contained Data volume.
The destination does not exist:
[graphe:/Volumes/Graphe6] Michael% file .VolumeIcon.icns
.VolumeIcon.icns: broken symbolic link to System/Volumes/Data/.VolumeIcon.icns
So, I created an empty file there:
[graphe:/Volumes/Graphe6] Michael% sudo touch .VolumeIcon.icns
And rechecked the link:
[graphe:/Volumes/Graphe6] Michael% file .VolumeIcon.icns
.VolumeIcon.icns: empty
File Browser now opens and lets me navigate around.
All is well.
H Michael- that seems strange, I just tried the following on a Pharo8 with Catalina:
OSPlatform current currentWorkingDirectoryPath.
> /Users/macta/Dev/Smalltalk/Pharo/Pharo 8.0 - 64bit
I’m using PharoLauncher, although my images are not stored in Documents, but ~/Dev/Smalltalk/Pharo (I adjusted the launcher settings). Not sure if that makes a difference? Or - perhaps you didn’t allow Pharo disk read privileges (that is a new security check in Catalina - see the OSX System Preferences, Security and Privacy, Files and Folders. Mine has a pharo entry with access to Downloads, Documents and Desktop).
Tim
On 22 Apr 2020, at 10:25, Michael Burns via Pharo-users <
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Subject: All file accesses get externalCalledFailed exceptions.
Date: 22 April 2020 at 10:25:56 BST
Newbie to Pharo
Just installed the latest 8.0 stable image.
Some things work, but anything I do to access any files gets an exception dealing with getcwd in libc.dylib.
I am running MacOS Catalina.
I searched and found the lib.dylib file and it is an alias to another .dylib file.
Is there something else I need to install or configure?
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