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EtreCheck: how enable full drive access?

Hello,

I just run EtreCheck because I was curious how healthy my Mac is. It seems to be fine: no mayor issues.

At the section minor issues: just one remark : "more information could be given if full drive access is enabled."

How do I do this?

What I already did:

SystemPreferences, Privacy, enabled EtreCheck full drive access
My back-up drives I'm using for TimeMachine: enabled read and write for System and Wheel

On my internal HD I see that System has 'read en write', Wheel en Everyone have 'just read'. When I try to change this I get the message that I don't have the permission to do this

MacBook Air

Posted on Mar 3, 2019 4:11 AM

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MrHoffman

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Posted on Mar 3, 2019 9:43 AM

The differences and details of what EtreCheck calls Full Disk and Full Drive access are described in the EtreCheck documentation, and in the I cannot get Full Drive Access to work? section if the EtreCheck FAQ.

If what’s described there doesn’t work—and Mojave further locks down access, particularly around backups—use the EtreCheck support email.

As for the lockdown? Not having random stuff poking at backups makes ransomware that much more difficult.

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