osx - How to Restore File System Access in macOS Catalina - Emacs Stack Exchange
Solution to the problem of Emacs being denied access to the likes of ~/Documents on macOS Catalina.
I've had an issue with a Macbook Pro on one particular network where, even though I've set the computer name via system preferences, in the terminal (and via hostname) it's showing as the network-generated name.
This seems to help tidy things up.