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Ios backup to external drive in Mojave

Am trying to backup ios device to external drive.

no way to do it in itunes

so in past have created a link to the external drive in the Applications Support folder.

in mojave getting ln : .command not allowed.

so no links in the Application Support folder

why

and since when

what’s a poor boy to do

when did apple declare war on external drives

Mac mini, OS X 10.11

Posted on Aug 27, 2022 1:55 PM

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Posted on Aug 27, 2022 4:49 PM

Pull down the Apple menu and choose ‘System Preferences’
Choose “Security & Privacy” control panel
Now select the “Privacy” tab, then from the left-side menu select “Full Disk Access”
Click the lock icon in the lower left corner of the preference panel and authenticate with an admin level login
Now click the [+] plus button to add an application with full disk access
Navigate to the /Applications/Utilities/ folder and choose “Terminal” to grant Terminal with Full Disk Access privileges
Relaunch Terminal, the “Operation not permitted” error messages will be gone

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