I’ve been happily using Hookmark for several years without any problems. Now, with version 6.9 on macOS 15.5, new notes automatically get locked. A blank note file gets created by Hookmark, but it can’t be edited. Instead, I’m forced to duplicate the file, edit that, and then delete the original. Needless to say, this is awfully cumbersome and eliminates the usefulness of using this app.
I’m using a standard folder for my notes as recommended by the app, if I recall:
~/Documents/Hook/notes
Have others run into this issue on Sequoia, and is there a solution? Many thanks in advance.
I use Byword, which I’ve always used successfully with Hook until now. Byword does have access to the /notes folder.
Another possibility springs to mind… I just tested it out and it’s indeed the source of this issue: I use Hazel to prepend the date to the filename of new notes created with Hookmark. It turns out that when Hazel runs this rule, it now locks the file. Afterwards, Byword returns the error: " You don’t own the file and don’t have permission to write to it."
Strangely, my username still has ownership of the file renamed by Hazel, with read and write (Unix: 600) permissions. I’ll write to Hazel support to see if they have any insights. I’ve used the same Hazel rule for years with my Hookmark notes, so it’s strange that this would change all of a sudden.
Looks like I found out what’s happening: The bug is in Byword, which incorrectly returns the error that “You don’t own the file and don’t have permission to write to it” after the filename is changed while it is open in Byword in macOS 15. The workaround is to close and reopen the file.
Byword has yet to be updated for macOS 15, so that’s probably the issue.