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How to reset macOS Privacy preferences when other options don’t work

It won’t be surprising to regular readers of Mac 911 that your faithful correspondent and his family routinely have trouble across their devices and services, some of which lead to columns in this fine publication. The only time that is jarring is when I search for a solution and find that I am apparently the definitive source for an answer—that doesn’t work for me at all.

That’s the case with resetting Privacy settings that allow non-Apple macOS apps to perform certain tasks that incur a

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