How can we help?
Table of Contents
< All Topics

MACOS SECURITY PREFERENCES

macOS  security preference settings are very important when you need to use BaseHead with another application and often are the source of most issues with Spotting or transferring files from BaseHead into a DAW. Check the following settings on your system and ensure you have things setup correctly.

It’s also best to only run basehead from the  ‘Applications’ folder as required by Apple now to fire commands into another program

    NOTE: ‘Automation’ can only be set when you have the application that you need to enable permissions for running. If you still have issues with Spotting (S), ‘Follow Session Folder’ or transfer of files to a DAW then you may need to manually deselect and reselect all security options for both BaseHead and the target application to force macOS to “reset” the permissions.

    See below for the areas in Security/Preferences to check if still having issues..

    Checking macOS Security Preferences

    Make sure BaseHead is set to control your computer in System Preferences/Security & Privacy/Accessibility.   If it’s already in the list then remove it and re-add it.

    basehead might need to be set or refreshed in System Preferences/Security & Privacy/Automation
    • If BaseHead is not in the above list or corrupt you will see a “no alias was created error” also like below.
    • In fact….if you are having issues we suggest
      a) Quit BH first
      b) Delete BH from this above list and manually and re-add from the ‘Applications’ folder in the Accessibility TAB.
      c) Re-Launch BH and see if it’s working then.

    To fully nuke all your basehead permissions you can run this in Terminal
    sudo tccutil reset All com.basehead.arm64
    OR like this for Intel processor
    sudo tccutil reset All com.basehead.x64

    OR you can individual remove permission for Accessibility and Automation with these two commands via Terminal
    sudo tccutil reset Accessibility com.basehead.arm64
    sudo tccutil reset Accessibility com.basehead.x64

    sudo tccutil reset AppleEvents com.basehead.arm64
    sudo tccutil reset AppleEvents com.basehead.x64