Most of the applications are not working after updating to macOS Sequoia

(Extra Information: I upgraded from MacOs 13 to 15 directly)


After I installed MacOs Sequoia, my M2 literally became a Windows machine, nothing is working.


I somehow could have found why the terminal and VSCode applications were not working. Their grants to access full disk seems revoked. I could have resolved by accessing the "Full Disk Access" settings, luckily them being among the apps that the setting GUI lets me to modify.


But not all apps are there and when I try to add the plus button, it simply does not work (I am providing the password/fingerprint).


  • Powerpoint takes forever to open a file, and once it opens it can not "save as" or "export" as pdf and its disk access can not be given from the GUI.
  • The plus sign in the "Full Disk Access" setting, even though password is given, i not working
  • Even the wallpaper GUI can not choose new files (file access dialogue is not opening)


Any suggestion is greatly appreciated or I'll throw this garbage out of the window soon.


PS: Simply, Sequoia is the only bad experience that I faced in Apple ecosystem more than a decade. It reminded me the exact experience that I was having when I was using Windows.


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Posted on Sep 28, 2024 11:37 AM

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Posted on Sep 29, 2024 10:42 PM

Reinstalling the MacOs Sequoia as described in the following link solved my issue: How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support


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Sep 29, 2024 4:52 AM in response to Paul Conaway

I believe the problem is not related with individual applications but with Sequia itself.


As far as I understood, during the upgrade (I upgraded directly from MacOs 13 to MacOs 15 Sequia), the existing file access rights are lost. And on top of it, the applications can not ask for directory access either. And on top of this, since the plus sign is missing in the below screen shot, the rights can not be granted manually either.


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