macOS Permissions

NueZip may request a few macOS permissions to provide the best experience. This page explains what each permission is for and how to manage them.

Files and Folders

To access archives anywhere on your system, NueZip needs file access permission.

What it's used for: Reading archive files, extracting contents, and creating new archives.

Manage: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Files and Folders

Grant access when prompted during first launch. You can manage or revoke access at any time.

NueZip includes a Finder extension that adds right-click context menu options.

What it's used for: Right-click archive files to extract, compress, or open with NueZip directly from Finder.

Enable: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Extensions → Finder Extensions → Enable NueZip

NueZip may show notifications for long-running operations (batch extraction, large archive compression).

What it's used for: Alerting you when a background operation completes.

Manage: System Settings → Notifications → NueZip

For extracting archives to system-protected locations, NueZip may request Full Disk Access.

What it's used for: Writing extracted files to locations outside your user folder.

Manage: System Settings → Privacy & Security → Full Disk Access

This permission is optional and only needed if you work with system-wide locations.

If a permission dialog was dismissed or the state is inconsistent, you can reset macOS permission prompts using tccutil:

bash

# Reset permissions for NueZip
tccutil reset All com.w3cub.nuezip

After running tccutil, restart the app and trigger the feature again to be reprompted.

If pets don't appear on reminders, check Notifications permission is granted.
If purchased pets aren't downloading, check Files and Folders permission.
After changing permissions, always quit and reopen PetReminder for changes to take effect.

For more help, visit the Troubleshooting guide.