Error code 13 Permission Denied on FFS launch

Posts: 9 · rfog 29 Sep 2018, 09:02

Hello!

Just updated to Mojave with a clean installation, installed my donation version of FFS and got the subject error (see attached image) I tried to change the permission of the file to RW but program still complains.

To add more fire to the problem, the non-donated version works fine.

Posts: 7211 · Zenju 30 Sep 2018, 07:42

What are this file's permissions? Are you able to reproduce this when you delete the file and reinstall again?

Posts: 9 · rfog 30 Sep 2018, 10:30

After overwrite the Donation Edition with the normal version, then delete normal version and re-installing the Donation Edition, seems being working.

Permsssions was no access for everyone, and r/w for system. No other permissions were in the file. Before install normal version I changed everyone to r/w but error continued.

Now, after removing download version and re-install Donation Edition the folder is empty and FFS says it is Donation Edition.

PS: You have an email from me with the same issue. You can ignore it, as it seems solved.

Posts: 7211 · Zenju 30 Sep 2018, 15:40

Could this be related to "umask", e.g. somehow "umask 0077" was set during the first installation? This would at least explain the strange permissions.

Posts: 1 · pixelworld 28 Oct 2018, 20:57

I've got the same problem with the donation version. Removed version 10.4 and install Version 10.5 over it. However this resulted in the same message. During my first installations of FFS I did not change file permissions.
And yes I changed to full disk permission in the security settings.
Hint:
After deleting the Library.../FreeFileSync/ (which had read rights for everyone) and reinstalling v10.5 donation version everything worked as expected.