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   Jesse (misc@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 22:24:31 JST Jesse

   Trying this again since Mastodon was surprisingly helpful with my last Mac IT issue. Did a full (less apps) restore from Backblaze (I know better now). Everything seems ok, except when I download a zip & double click from Safari, Archive Utility gives the error “Could not find a writable folder for the contents of _.zip.” But I can open the zip in Downloads from the Finder and it decompresses. I have rw permission for Downloads, so the problem is elsewhere… but where?

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 22:24:30 JST Paul Cantrell

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     That’s super bizarre. macOS uses a bunch of sandbox folders in odd places for intermediate states. I’d snoop the permissions in /private/var as a shot in the dark, but…?!??

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Oct-2023 22:26:25 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @misc
     For reference, on my machine: