![]() It also worth mentioning that web browsers like Safari, Chrome and Firefox can open and read the content, but I'd guess that's because web browsers are specially coded to tolerate read error and partial contents.įileVault is not enabled and this is an old model so it's not T2 and file system encryption related issue. ![]() Other applications like Visual Studio Code can also open and write to the files without problem. All CLI utilities in Terminal can read, create, write and delete all these files, including vi, cp, mv, rm command pipelined commands like `echo hello > ~/Desktop/hello.txt` are still functional and new files will be created on desktop, but these newly created files can not be opened by TextEdit.txt as well. This problem seems to only affect applications that use Launch Service, because other applications that use conventional POSIX file I/O are not affected. Create a new account on the same machine and it is not affected by the same problem so far. ![]() Reboot can temporarily solve this issue, but logout and re-login and this situation will happen again. The error message of open dialog claimed "The document XXXX could not be opened."įiles can be renamed in Finder, can quick view the content, and can be copied to other directory, but can not be moved out of Desktop or delete.įiles in other directory can not be copied or moved to Desktop and applications can not save files to Desktop either the error message of save dialog claimed "The file 'Desktop' couldn't be opened".įinder can still create new folder on Desktop and it can be opened, but it can't be moved or deleted as well, files from other directory can be moved into these folders, but they'll become inaccessible too. Time Machine target is an external drive auto-backup is temporarily disabled.Īll files under ~/Desktop path are not accessible by most applications, including Finder:ĭouble click on the file or choose from "File > Open." within application both fail to open the file. ICloud Desktop/Document syncing is not enabled. MacBook Pro Retina late-2013, Catalina 10.15.1 Files on Desktop are not accessible Device, OS version and other background info: ![]()
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