I am running Cubase Pro 12, Cubase Pro 14 and Dorico Elements 5 on a macOS Sonoma 14.7.1
I have seen that there is a “com.steinberg” denied permission in the list of my System Settings > Privacy > Full disk Access:
I don’t know what is this. I can understand a full disk acces to Cubase or Dorico here, but not this. I mean that a per-app permission is clear, but a com.steinberg permission is weird to me.
Anybody know why this access has been added to the list, and why it’s denied?
Thanks
Problem moving libraries on MacOS Ventura 13.3. 1 - Cubase - Steinberg Forums
in this post they suggest there is a background service from Steinberg running. try looking into that
IMO, moving libraries has no relations with my questions.
Hello,
You can check the file by right-clicking on the entry and “Show in Finder”.
It is a Privileged Install Helper. If you have software from Arturia, Plugin Alliance (if you use the Install Manager), Cherry (if you use Sync), Microsoft, NI, you’ll find their install helpers there as well (at least, I do have them all here).
The permission is not granted because the very point of the helpers is to not blindly grant elevated permissions to any app, but rather allow it to run with such privilege only when needed - in this case install programs and their updates.
I’m not a dev, but the requirements for these are quite strict: the apps calling the helper must be code signed, the apps must be approved to send requests to the helper, the Apps must have a valid auth reference and possibly others I’m missing.
Hope it helps.