Meanwhile th old Macbook Air was working fine on the old diosk from which I had cloned the Pro. But i had no idea how to fix what I now think was a file permission error somewhere down the home directory tree in the system files. Even Safari was failing to start up with a file permission error that I found in the log, and by working my way down the library tree correcting permission I got Safari working again. So I followed the Apple instructions on how to rename a username and rename the homedirectory root to get back to plain old 'john smith'. Several apps, including Skype, Zoom and Dropbox had a problem with that and did not correctly parse the spaces in the new username, and erase them to create the home directory they were looking for. This was finally successful, but meant that where I started with a username 'john smith' which had a home directory of 'johnsmith' I ended up with an Apple created username of 'john smith 1 2' and home directory root of 'johnsmith12' on the MacHD. The first migration attempt failed, so I repeated it, twice more. I had cloned, using Migration Assistant, from old Macbook Air to new Macbook Pro. I sorted mine, it turned out to be partially self inflicted. This time it requests the permission, which I OK'd, and it gets the camera permission, but that is still not logged in Privacy settings, and in any case it does not get the microphone permission, and so is also useless.Īny ideas for another combination trick I have not yet tried?Ĭlearly Apple has a big problem with the new privacy and security settings process for access to devices. So I created a new user account and loaded Skype into that. But Skype requests the access to the devices which I grant, but it doesn't get permission. This time Zoom works and gets the permission correctly requested into Privacy settings.

So I copied the Macos Mojave system across again using Migration assistant from the working Macbook Air. I tried reloading Mojave with a clean refresh install from boot, again no effect.

Meanwhile both apps still work fine off the Macbook also on Mojave, that I migrated from.Īfter trying all permutations to coerce Zoom in to requesting permission, including, with Zoom's support, completely cleaning off the Zoom installation and reinstalling without any effect. If Zoom does not ask for access you cannot force the permission. Interestingly Skype worked OK but also did not show up in the allowed users of camera or microphone. Zoom never issued the request to get access to microphone and camera through Privacy settings.

Skype worked at first on new install but Zoom would not. I migrated from macbook air to macbook pro using migration assistant. Oh I have this in various guises and not just with Skype.

Skype for mac problems with audio