Re: [Interest] Removing files/folders in /Applications under macOS

2019-11-28 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Thursday, 28 November 2019 12:30:05 PST Roman Wüger wrote: > @thiago: it works with sudo when I do something like „sudo > /Applications/MyBundle.app/Contents/MacOS/MyBundle“ but not if I try „sudo > open /Applications/MyBundle.app“ Apparently, the "open" command doesn't pass on the increased

Re: [Interest] Removing files/folders in /Applications under macOS

2019-11-28 Thread Roman Wüger
@thiago: it works with sudo when I do something like „sudo /Applications/MyBundle.app/Contents/MacOS/MyBundle“ but not if I try „sudo open /Applications/MyBundle.app“ Normally when I empty my trash, where an application was moved into the trash, then a dialog appears to enter the credentials

Re: [Interest] Removing files/folders in /Applications under macOS

2019-11-27 Thread David M. Cotter
i believe you must provide an "entitlement" for that https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Miscellaneous/Reference/EntitlementKeyReference/Chapters/AboutEntitlements.html

Re: [Interest] Removing files/folders in /Applications under macOS

2019-11-27 Thread Roman Wüger
Hello Thiago, At first, thanks for the quick reply. when I run a simple bash script it works when I run it with sudo. When I run my Qt application with sudo, then the removeRecursively() only returns false but do not remove anything. However, I thought that it tries to gain access where dialog

Re: [Interest] Removing files/folders in /Applications under macOS

2019-11-27 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 27 November 2019 04:56:02 PST Roman Wüger wrote: > I’m not able to remove files/dies in /Applications programmatically. Why not? What was the error? Were you running your application as root? -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel System

[Interest] Removing files/folders in /Applications under macOS

2019-11-27 Thread Roman Wüger
Hello, I already tried it with QDir and removeRecursively() but it won’t work under macOS. I’m not able to remove files/dies in /Applications programmatically. Any hints about that? Thanks in advance Regards Roman ___ Interest mailing list