macOS Mojave - System Preference, Security & Privacy, Accessibility - Not Working/Empty

Hi,


This is quite a copy paste of a previous question in this forum - System Preference, Security & Privacy, Accessibility - Not Working/Empty

However, the solutions offered did not solve the problem on the new Mojave version and therefore I'm asking again.


Just updated to the latest Mojave 10.14 (18A391).

After the update my System Preference, Security & Privacy, Accessibility access list is not working, it's completely empty/blank and I can't use +/- either. They do nothing. The + does try to add an app and I can select an app via the dialog box but the window just still shows blank after choosing an app. It never adds anything.


I have rebooting numerous times and power-cycled also to no avail. I have also used Onyx to repair Permissions and also CleanMyMac utility, all passed perfectly fine.


The list never used to be empty, there were several apps listed in there such as DropBox and BetterTouchTool, but they're all gone now. It's completely empty.


I'm having major issues because apps that were once on the list now won't run till I add them to the list, but I can't. I would even purchase another app that could control this list, but I don't know of any app that does.


I hope someone has a solution or an idea of what to do because you've experienced the exact same situation.


Thanks in advance,

Alex

MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Mojave (10.14)

Posted on Oct 4, 2018 1:46 AM

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Posted on Mar 18, 2019 2:04 PM

https://appletoolbox.com/2016/07/fix-corrupt-user-accounts-macos/#Reset_Home_Folder_Permissions


I read a bunch of threads and ended up at Reset Home Folder Permissions. I got to step 6 which seems to take a good 10+ mins to run, give or take. After that stopped and before I went to the next step of issuing a command in terminal, I opened the Accessibility pane one more time for good measure and it was WORKING!


I did not do step 7. I hit unlock, and everything was there for me to turn off or on. Since the 2 apps in question didn't work before, I just locked the pane without changing anything since they were already checked. Both apps (Magnet.app and Automator.app) worked without a hitch.


Whew! Let me know @spscmt if that works for you.

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