Any way to get around macOS forcing Word to need permission to access each file?

[inspiredearth]

First off, thanks very much for this script. It just saved me a lot of time.

I used it in macOS 13.4.1.

The one issue I encountered it that each file required Word to open and then a dialogue would pop up in Word saying it needs permission to access the file. I would then have to select the file in Word, and the conversion would succeed. Word would then close. This repeated for every file.

Do you know of any way around this?

One thing I tried was to grant Microsoft Word Full Disk Access but that didn't help.

[MustafaaYilmas]

Hi,

I solved it like this, Apple System settings -> Privacy and Security -> Full Disk Access -> I added Microsoft Word here.

[MustafaaYilmas]

I have also done the following operations and maybe it was solved because of them.

2. Apple System settings -> Privacy and Security -> Developer Tools -> Activate Terminal.

3. Microsoft Word -> Preferences -> Security -> Enable All Macros

[antarr]

I've tried both solutions and neither is working. I've also given the library disk access

#!/bin/bash

# Function to recursively iterate over files
process_files() {
  for file in "$1"/*; do
    if [ -d "$file" ]; then
      process_files "$file"
    elif [ -f "$file" ] && [[ "$file" == *.doc ]]; then
      doc2docx --keep-active "$file"
    fi
  done
}

# Check if directory is provided as an argument
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 <directory>"
  exit 1
fi

# Start processing files from the given directory
process_files "$1"