Once I’d found out where Apple hide the Terminal app

Hopefully these issues can be solved in short order (I haven’t run into anything similar with other apps). Open /Applications/Utilities/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity Open / location of audacity/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity If it’s somewhere else, you’ll need to change the path in the above command: Sudo open /Applications/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacityįinally, this assume that Audacity is stored in your Applications folder. If for some reason this doesn’t work, you can try opening Audacity as root: This will open Audacity and then Terminal will actually ask for the correct permissions. Open /Applications/Audacity.app/Contents/MacOS/Audacity

You can open Audacity via the terminal using the following command: For some reason, Audacity does not ask for these permissions, and as such can’t access the necessary resources to work.

Second, there are additional protected folders in Catalina that applications also need to explicitly ask permission to access (such as Desktop and Downloads). The issues on Catalina are NOT driver related, but related to some of the new security and permissions requirements in Catalina.įirst, when an application attempts to access any sound input device, said application requires explicit permission from the user before it can access the mic.

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