TotalFinder Support In macOS 10.14 Mojave

Ken · July 10, 2018, 2:01pm

In Security & Privacy/Privacy/Automation: Allow the apps below to automate other apps.
Total Finder
(x) Finder

Check to see if this is enabled. It’s enabled on my machine. See if that helps.

ans87ba · July 10, 2018, 2:32pm

So I looked into S&P/Privacy/Automation and did not find the option mentioned. There is only TF uninstaller present. Suggestions?

darwin · July 10, 2018, 2:44pm

Please try to remove it from Accessibility. And then kill TotalFinder.app via ActivityMonitor.app and then launch it again. macOS could ask again for automation permissions.

Ken · July 10, 2018, 2:58pm

You beat me to it. Both my iMac (27" Late 2013) and Macbook Pro have Total Finder in Automation.

darwin · July 10, 2018, 3:01pm

I can also see it under Automation and NOT under Accessibility. I wonder how @ans87ba installed the Mojave system. I can imagine a scenario when he upgraded the previous Sierra system in-place to Mojave without a clean install. This could bring over some accessibility flags set in the previous system and that in turn caused new Mojave “Privacy/Automation” subsystem to not be triggered (in theory).

ans87ba · July 10, 2018, 3:04pm

The is exactly what I did; upgrade not clean install - first time ever I select not to b/c didn’t have updated backup. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling after your suggestion but no success.
is there a way to reset the accessibility parameters?

darwin · July 10, 2018, 3:05pm

I was googling for some solution, but Mojave is so new that there are not many support articles on the web, I’m afraid. Please let us know if you figure out a way how to make it appear there under Privacy/Automation.

Ken · July 10, 2018, 3:06pm

Here you go: https://macosxautomation.com/mavericks/guiscripting/reset.html This script should work with Mojave as well. Incidentally, I did an upgrade, not a clean install on both the desktop and laptop and TF is in the automation section.

darwin · July 10, 2018, 3:10pm

Nice find!

I just looked inside the provided zip archive and extracted the applescript file to review it is not harmful. It looks good, it uses tccutil reset Accessibility terminal command, which might be extended under Mojave:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/darwin/bc647b16d1ac8581cc89a76883523ac3

reset.applescript

tell application "System Preferences"
	launch
	activate
	
	reveal anchor "Privacy_Assistive" of pane id "com.apple.preference.security"
	
	
	display alert "RESET ACCESSIBILITY APPROVAL LIST" message "This script will reset (clear) the list of applications in the Accessibility section of the Privacy system preference pane." & linefeed & linefeed & "This action requires an administrative password, and cannot be undone." as critical buttons {"Cancel", "Reset"} cancel button "Cancel"
	
	set show all to true

This file has been truncated. show original

Will investigate it in a bit.

darwin · July 10, 2018, 3:26pm

Ok, I did a bit of digging in Mojave and all permissions are located in ~/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db which is a SQLite database. You can open it with some free tools like https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser.

From command-line in Terminal.app you can execute following commands:

sudo tccutil reset Accessibility

and

sudo tccutil reset AppleEvents

The first one will clear “Accessibility” permissions in Privacy/Accessibility of System Preferences. And the second one will clear the “Automation” permissions in Privacy/Automation.

Try to run both commands and then kill everything Finder/TotalFinder related and launch it again. This time it should ask you for permissions I believe.

ans87ba · July 10, 2018, 4:21pm

attempted terminal commands and restarted twice - not successful

steinarh77 · July 10, 2018, 4:34pm

Great news, it works now. Full OSX efficiency again.

Steinar

ans87ba · July 10, 2018, 4:38pm

congrats

rjmorita · July 10, 2018, 9:13pm

Just installed TotalFinder 1.11.1 and it’s working again in Mojave. Thanks !!

hanhae · July 11, 2018, 8:34pm

Thank you very much…
You, Sir, made my day!!!

Oh… almost forgot…
It works like a charm…

tosbsas · July 11, 2018, 11:30pm

Is there news about reenable SIP on Mojave?

darwin · July 12, 2018, 12:14pm

I’m sorry. It is unlikely there will ever be another “reenable SIP” workaround like we discovered under Sierra and High Sierra. As I wrote above. Apple decided to completely disallow code injection into Finder if not signed by Apple.

ans87ba · July 12, 2018, 12:17pm

wanted to ask if you found any solution to my current ‘Apple Events’ issue? Thanks

darwin · July 12, 2018, 12:19pm

There is not much I can do if I cannot really reproduce your situation.

Could you please try to create a new “pristine” user account on your Mac. Then switch to it and try to launch TotalFinder.app there. This way we could at least tell if the issue is in your home folder (user settings) or not.

tosbsas · July 12, 2018, 1:45pm

whooow, ok. So to be able to use Totalfinder in the near future I will need to give up on a system protection feature. Doesn’t sound too promising.