1.20.0 - No access to User folder on filesystem on macOS Appstore version

[benjamindahl]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• This is a bug in RetroArch frontend
• I have searched the existing issues

Description

When I try to scan my ROM directory to import games I'm not able to access the User folder although full disk access permissions are granted. This only happens with the AppStore version on macOS. Directory is not found

Expected behavior

Have access to the whole file system on macOS

Steps to reproduce the bug

Just try to import ROMs from the menu

Version/Commit

1.20.0 macOS AppStore

Bisect Results

No response

Check in the nightly version

I don't know

Platform & operating system

macOS 14.5

Affected Cores

No response

Environment information

No response

Relevant log output

No response

[benjamindahl]

I edited the ~/Library/Containers/com.libretro.dist.RetroArch/Data/Library/Application Support/RetroArch/config/retroarch.cfg
manually to the path
~/Library/Containers/com.libretro.dist.RetroArch/Data/Documents/RetroArch and I can Access the directory but when I navigate to parent folders those can not be found again.

[Sammcb]

Am also seeing this. I even tried giving RetroArch full disk access, but still encountered the same issue. Using the CMD-O shortcut to load content, I was able to select a ROM file but the program simply crashes.

[warmenhoven]

Hm, this was working for me at one point. It does have the "User Selected File (Read/Write)" permission selected. I'm seeing the same thing though. I'll see what's going on. In the mean time you can always manually copy things into its sandbox.