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Merge pull request #15268 from nextcloud/i2h3/edit-locally
Add known issue about "Edit locally" for file provider
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To avoid the issue entirely, right-click the alias file in Finder and choose
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**Keep Downloaded** before opening it for the first time.
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Edit locally
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^^^^^^^^^^^^
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The :guilabel:`Edit locally` action offered by the Nextcloud web interface
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cannot open files that are managed by the File Provider extension.
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It can only reveal them in Finder.
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This is a restriction of macOS itself, not a fault in the client. For your
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protection, macOS only lets specific apps open a given file, and it does not
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allow an app to grant itself that permission. The part of the client that is
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allowed to manage these files is not permitted to launch other apps, and the
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part that could launch your editor is not permitted to open the file.
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Granting Full Disk Access does not help, because a different part of the
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macOS security system is responsible for this.
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Troubleshooting
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Debug-level Logging
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Debug-level log entries for the File Provider extension are disabled by
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default.

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