Security-scoped bookmarks to external volumes are resolved to /

Users of my different apps started reporting an issue that could be related to the ones discussed in this other post: paths on an external volume, such as one mounted by "NTFS for Mac", or a path on a Synology volume, are "converted" to / (Macintosh HD) after going through "laundry" (creating the security-scoped bookmark, resolving the URL from it and using this new URL instead of the one returned by the open panel).

Because of this issue, users of my apps are unable to select external volumes, which renders the different apps more or less useless. I've already received many emails regarding this issue in the past few days. A timely fix or suggestion for a workaround would be much appreciated, so that they don't have to wait for months before the next minor macOS release. The intention of this post is also to show users of my apps that this is a real issue.

I created FB21002290 and TSI 16931637.

Users of my different apps started reporting an issue that could be related to the ones discussed in this other post: paths on an external volume, such as one mounted by "NTFS for Mac", or a path on a Synology volume, are "converted" to / (Macintosh HD) after going through "laundry" (creating the security-scoped bookmark, resolving the URL from it, and using this new URL instead of the one returned by the open pane).

Clarifying slightly, the bug happens with file systems which don't provide "native" persistent identifiers, so this does not affect APFS or HFS+. The behavior on smb volumes will depend on the specifics of the smb server.

I created FB21002290.

I believe this issue has been fixed in the most recent seed, macOS 26.2 beta 3 (25C5048a).

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Kevin Elliott
DTS Engineer, CoreOS/Hardware

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