H Michael- that seems strange, I just tried the following on a Pharo8 with Catalina: 

OSPlatform current currentWorkingDirectoryPath.

> /Users/macta/Dev/Smalltalk/Pharo/Pharo 8.0 - 64bit

I���m using PharoLauncher, although my images are not stored in Documents, but ~/Dev/Smalltalk/Pharo (I adjusted the launcher settings). Not sure if that makes a difference? Or - perhaps you didn���t allow Pharo disk read privileges (that is a new security check in Catalina - see the OSX System Preferences, Security and Privacy, Files and Folders. Mine has a pharo entry with access to Downloads, Documents and Desktop).

Tim

On 22 Apr 2020, at 10:25, Michael Burns via Pharo-users <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> wrote:


From: Michael Burns <michaelburns@mac.com>
Subject: All file accesses get externalCalledFailed exceptions.
Date: 22 April 2020 at 10:25:56 BST
To: Pharo users <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>


Newbie to Pharo
Just installed the latest 8.0 stable image.
Some things work, but anything I do to access any files gets an exception dealing with getcwd in libc.dylib.

I am running MacOS Catalina.
I searched and found the lib.dylib file and it is an alias to another .dylib file.

Is there something else I need to install or configure?

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