How to change the system folders (Pictures, Movies etc) It used to be possible (before Big Sur I think) to rename and remap the system folders (Pictures, Movies etc). What I am trying to do is move the folders to Dropbox like this:
sudo mv ~/Documents ~/Documents_old
ln -s ~/Dropbox/Pictures ~/Pictures
When I do that I get the following message:
mv: rename /Users/neilthompson/Pictures to /Users/neilthompson/Pictures_old: Operation not permitted
I know that it used to be possible because I have been doing it since 2014 but just moved to a brand new machine and now it doesn't work.
Anyone know of a workaround?
You need to give full disk access to Terminal to make it work - those permissions seem to have changed in Big Sur.  Go System Preferences -&gt; Security &amp; Privacy -&gt; Privacy and grant the permission to Terminal.  Even files that look like you have full control over them (based on unix permissions) can be impacted.