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doc: Add known issue about "Edit locally" for file provider
Signed-off-by: Iva Horn <iva.horn@nextcloud.com>
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To avoid the issue entirely, right-click the alias file in Finder and choose
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**Keep Downloaded** before opening it for the first time.
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“Edit locally”
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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The “Edit locally” action offered by the Nextcloud web interface cannot open
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files that are managed by the File Provider extension.
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This is a restriction of macOS itself, not a fault in the client. For your
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protection, macOS only lets specific apps open a given file, and it does not
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allow an app to grant itself that permission. The part of the client that is
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allowed to manage these files is not permitted to launch other apps, and the
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part that could launch your editor is not permitted to open the file. Granting
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Full Disk Access does not help, because a different part of the macOS security
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system is responsible for this.
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To edit such a file, open it directly from Finder instead: select your
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Nextcloud location in the Finder sidebar and double-click the file.
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Troubleshooting
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