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User profile for user: 易致
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Unable to save /private/etc/hosts Error: /private/etc/hosts is readonly

mac os : 11.5.2（20G95）

sublime Text : 41113


Unable to save /private/etc/hosts Error: /private/etc/hosts is readonly


Use sublime Text app to edit the hosts file (/private/etc/hosts), and an error prompt window like this appears. Nothing like this happened a few days ago. After using the restore system, it returned to normal, but the same problem occurred a few days later.


Does anyone have the same problem?

How do you solve such problems?

Currently, only sudo vim can be used to edit, but this is a bit inconvenient for me.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.12

Posted on Aug 24, 2021 9:02 PM

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User profile for user: Barney-15E
Barney-15E
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Posted on Aug 26, 2021 7:32 AM

易致 wrote:

Yes bro, it worked for me like this before, but now I don’t know why it became like this.
I want to ask if there is a solution? Or did i do something stupid

You'd probably have to ask Sublime Text.

It might be a privacy access issue in Security & Privacy system preferences. Try adding Sublime Text to Full Disk Access.

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Barney-15E
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Aug 26, 2021 7:32 AM in response to 易致

易致 wrote:

Yes bro, it worked for me like this before, but now I don’t know why it became like this.
I want to ask if there is a solution? Or did i do something stupid

You'd probably have to ask Sublime Text.

It might be a privacy access issue in Security & Privacy system preferences. Try adding Sublime Text to Full Disk Access.

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Unable to save /private/etc/hosts Error: /private/etc/hosts is readonly

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