[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM :: Bugs] #11295: BLADERUNNER: save games may not work on macOS Catalina

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#11295: BLADERUNNER: save games may not work on macOS Catalina
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  Reporter:  antoniou79    |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  defect        |     Status:  new
  Priority:  normal        |  Component:  Engine: Bladerunner
Resolution:                |   Keywords:  saving fails, macOS Catalina
      Game:  Blade Runner  |
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Comment (by criezy):

 I have two notes there related to running the Bladerunner GOG application
 on macOS Catalina:
 * The GOG application is a launcher that then start ScummVM. This is an
 issue because macOS tries to track the user-facing process (the
 application that the user started) when a process tries to access the
 Documents folder to prompt the user about authorising access to it for the
 process. In this particular case when ScummVM tries to access the
 Documents folder, macOS fails to track the user-facing process (the GOG
 launcher executable) and as a result doesn't prompt the user to authorise
 access. This issue does not happen when the user runs ScummVM directly.
 * When the user does not authorise access to the Documents folder, saving
 savegames works anyway. However listing and loading savegames does not
 work. This means that the user can find his savegames later on if he then
 authorises access to the Documents folder for ScummVM (or change the
 savepath in the ScummVM.ini file in the GOG Bladerunner app bundle and
 then copies manually the savesgames to the new location).

 I suspect this last point is also valid for ScummVM in general and not
 just the Bladerunner GOG app, but I have not checked that yet.
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Ticket URL: <https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/11295#comment:2>
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