issue with saving web page to the dock in Sonoma

I had this issue too, even though I had read/write permission to the Applications folder. I discovered that web apps are not stored in the Applications folder that appears in the Finder sidebar; they are saved in an Applications folder under your User folder. To get there select "Go" in the Finder Main Menu, followed by "Go to Folder ..." (or simply use the Shift+Cmd+G shortcut), and enter "~/Applications". Right click on this Applications folder and select "Get Info". Unlock the padlock at the bottom right of the Get Info window by clicking on it and entering your logon password (if it is locked). Go the Sharing & Permissions: section. If your user name is not listed, click on the + sign and add it. Select "Read & Write" from the drop down list under Privilege against your name. Click on the padlock at the bottom right of the Get Info window to re-lock it. You should now be able to save web apps to the dock.

I had the same issue. The permissions on the "Applications" folder in my home directory were wrong. To be honest I'm not 100% sure of what the proper permissions and ownership should be, but I just added write permissions for me. There are lots of way to do this, but what I did was:

• Launch "Terminal"
• By default you should be in your Home folder, if not

cd ~

• Check permissions on the folder with the command

ls -l

The result was (result truncated to only show the first 2 lines

total 15216
drwxr-xr-x    3 root      staff       96 Sep 27  2022 Applications

Note in this case I'm not root, but I am in the staff group. The permissions above mean:

d = directory

"rwx" = Owner permissions, Read, Write ,eXecute

"r-x" = Group permissions, Read, NO-write, eXecute

"r-x" = Others permissions, Read, NO-write, eXecute

Since I, as a member of the group but not the owner, didn't have write permissions the failure made sense. So to fix that I issues the command:

sudo chmod 775 Applications

This requires you to be an admin user, and you'll need to enter your password at this point.

Looking at things after:

ls -l
total 15216
drwxrwxr-x    3 root      staff       96 Sep 27  2022 Applications

So now the group, has write permissions.

This allowed me to save the web app.

Maybe review this support document: Use Safari web apps on Mac - Apple Support

This features saves the web page to the Applications folder in your home directory. This is different from your main Applications folder. Make sure that Applications folder exists in your home directory, it doesn't already have a gmail.app file, and doesn't have any funky permissions on it.

ATHiker95 wrote:

So we got sort of a workaround but it is not ideal situation. I can drag the URL to the right side of the doc and it will give me a picture of a globe. If I hover over it, it will tell me the name of the website. The icon for the web page unfortunately doesn't move over. So once I drag 3 or 4 URL's to the doc, I end up with 3 or 4 globes sitting there. It will not allow me to move the globes to the left side of the line where permanent apps usually reside. So this is what appears to be a bug.

Those are just webloc files - essentially hyperlinks stored to a file.

It sounds like the permissions in home directory are screwed up. Or perhaps your entire home directory is scrambled. Try creating a new user account on your computer. Login to that new user account and try it there. I bet it works fine.

Unfortunately, it can be difficult to track down why your permissions aren't working. It could be just permissions. You said that you "unlocked permissions" but I'm not sure what that means. There is a padlock icon in the Get Info window, but just clicking it won't do anything. You have to unlock and then change permissions. You will have to do that on the Applications folder in your home directory. If your permissions are scrambled, then it won't be able to create those stub apps in the applications folder. So that's why you don't see the apps. It is the Applications folder itself that needs fixing.

However, it could also be your home folder, or something else. There are dozens of various 3rd party system modification apps, system hack apps, "clean up" tools, etc. These things are extremely popular and cause an extremely large number of problems. If these kinds of 3rd party tools are causing the problem, then you might not be able to create Dock apps in your new user account either.

So what I'm saying is that it works fine. There's no bug. Your system is simply scrambled. This is day one for Sonoma. I'm sure in the coming weeks you'll have several million friends in exactly the same spot.

No idea why you are dragging anything. You open a webpage in Safari and choose "Add to Dock…" from Safari's File menu.

Try while in Safe Mode. Perhaps you have something installed that's causing a problem.

Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support

You could also try creating a new user account, log into it and see if it works there.

This has been solved in this thread. Basically add you user to the permission in the User Application folder.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/16we97q/comment/k32hgg4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Have you granted access to gmail.app to "Full Disk Access"?

System Settings > Privacy & Security > Full Disk Access.

Just to clarify, as etresoft explained, the file saves in ~/Applications, not /Applications.

Well, paste the following line in the URL field of your browser. You should get nearly 16 million hits in ASC alone of problems CMM has caused.

site:discussions.apple.com cleanmymac