I have a client who reported a bug in one of my plugins which we tracked down to erratic behaviour of the Dir.pwd method. He reports this started happening after ‘upgrading’ to Catalina. He has since upgraded to Catalina 10.15.2 and SU 2019.3, but the problem still persists. Dir.pwd is arbitrarily …

[image] archidave: Dir.pwd is arbitrarily returning the expected value … At one time SketchUp was setting the working directory at startup to something else (which we devs didn’t feel was appropriate.) We complained and we all discussed it and it was decided that for safety, SketchUp would in…

[image] DanRathbun: it is proper etiquette for a developer to return the working directory to the previous path after their code is done if they changed it. That is exactly why Dir.pwd is there in my use case, to get the current value in order to restore it afterwards. I’m not relying on any …

[image] archidave: However I wasn’t aware of the temporary effect of the block form of Dir.chdir , that seems a more robust solution, thanks for that. :+1: Class: Dir (Ruby 2.5.5) If a block is given, it is passed the name of the new current directory, and the block is executed with that a…

[image] archidave: Dir.pwd is arbitrarily returning the expected value or an error. Can you elaborate on the steps to reproduce what you observe?

Hi Thom, Just typing Dir.pwd in the Ruby console on SU 2019 / Mac OS Catalina seems to exhibit the issue. According to the screenshot I was sent it arbitrarily returns a valid path or an error as above. NB I can’t reproduce myself as I do not have (and do not want) Catalina installed. I just rece…

[image] archidave: Dir.chdir(“/Users/<username>/Desktop”) do puts Dir.pwd end There is a possibility that heightened security in Catalina may be involved. When I try the snippet that @archidave gave, I get a popup asking whether I want to allow SketchUp to access my Desktop. If I grant perm…

Interesting… We tried creating a new folder to see if that would invoke a request to grant permission. He reports the following 2 responses alternate, but no pop-up message: > Dir.chdir("/Users/<username>/Documents/new_test_folder") do puts Dir.pwd end Error: #<Errno::EPERM: Operation not permitt…

[image] archidave: NB I can’t reproduce myself as I do not have (and do not want) Catalina installed. Same here. I’ve asked my colleagues with access to Catalina machines to test this out.

UPDATE: My client reports: I realized that after upgrading, Catalina asks at first use of every app for permission to access the documents folder. I did not remember I was asked to do it with Sketchup. So I manually provided the permission in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > …

Is `Dir.pwd` broken in SU 2019.3 by Mac OS Catalina?

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john_drivenupthewall December 23, 2019, 3:17pm 13

this may be another reason to avoid ever changing pwd on mac…

Catalina seems to default to having your desktop and documents folders being on your iCloud Drive.

john

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Is `Dir.pwd` broken in SU 2019.3 by Mac OS Catalina?

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