We should be thanking Mike Maas. His March 10, 2020 post mentions the required 
setting.

To be clear, since the day this started I’ve always seen the problem where 
there is a hang when Hugin tries to transfer the stitch task to PTBatcherGUI 
when PTBatcherGUI was not already running. I needed to add Full Disk Access 
privilege for only Hugin to get things working properly. PTBatcherGUI already 
had limited access (Removable Volumes and Desktop Folder) on my system. I have 
my doubts that limited access is necessary for the Hugin to PTBatcherGUI 
handoff.

This access issue has always been mysterious because one can monitor the hidden 
temporary file location where Hugin and PTBatcherGUI exchange the handoff 
information. I think you can see both Hugin and PTBatcherGUI creating, writing 
and deleting files at the location, yet we get the unresolved path name to 
presumably that location when Hugin does not have the Security & Privacy Full 
Disk Access privilege. It is as if some function call to evaluate that path is 
influenced by the Security & Privacy Full Disk Access privilege and kicking 
back an unresolvable result.                         

> On May 17, 2020, at 6:50 PM, 'Stanley Green' via hugin and other free 
> panoramic software <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Your suggested fix worked perfectly. Thank you!
> I was not sure if you meant to for me to do the “Security & Privacy” action 
> for Hugin or PTBatcherGUI so I did them both.
> 
>> On May 17, 2020, at 6:38 PM, AKS-Gmail-IMAP <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> The problem appears to come from security changes Apple made to OS X. Hugin 
>> is denied certain access privaleges critical to its process for handing the 
>> stitching task over to PTBatcherGUI. The cause seems to be elusive enough, 
>> and also possibly different for each OS X version, to evade error trapping 
>> attempts on the part of Hugin’s OS X developers. I suspect the issue is 
>> related to Apple gradually integrating its A2 security chip into OS X 
>> versions. 
>> 
>> The fix for me, revealed by others in pervious posts, requires manually 
>> allowing Hugin the required security access privileges in Apple’s “Security 
>> & Privacy” section to OS X’s “System Preferences”. My OS X is 10.15.4. The 
>> names, GUI and procedure I describe might be slightly different than in your 
>> OS X version but I would assume the general concept is the same.
>> 
>> Open the “Security & Privacy” section in “System Preferences”. Note this is 
>> OS X System Preferences, not Hugin Preferences. Select the “Privacy” 
>> selector in the “Security & Privacy” pane. The GUI might be different for OS 
>> X 10.14.4. The “Security & Privacy” preferences concern what applications 
>> are allowed to access. This includes disk access as well as microphone 
>> access etc.
>> 
>> “Unlock” your access to “Security & Privacy” if it locked. (i.e. “Click the 
>> lock to make changes.”)
>> 
>> Find and select “Full Disk Access” in the category selection pane that is on 
>> the “Security & Privacy” pane’s left side. Using the “+-“ control, add Hugin 
>> to the applications listed in the right hand side list window if it not 
>> listed. Then check its checkbox. 
>> 
>> I did not need to add PTBatcherGUI for “Full Disk Access”. For me, 
>> PTBatcherGUI was already listed in the “Files and Folders” category access. 
>> It apparently had partial access. What is confusing is that the “+-“ control 
>> for the “Files and Folders” category access list window cannot be activated. 
>> Applications with Full Disk Access are listed in this list. Hugin will be 
>> listed there after you grant it Full Disk Access in the Full Disk Access 
>> control.
>> 
>> Lock the setting when you are done. This fixed the Hugin transfer to 
>> PTBatcherGUI problem.
>> 
>>           
>> 
>>> On May 17, 2020, at 3:42 PM, 'mac_user' via hugin and other free panoramic 
>>> software <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Well, I spoke too soon.  Tried to create a new pano with a different image 
>>> set and the PTBatcherGUI locked up again.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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