![]() ![]() You need to make sure you are deleting what you mean to delete. One important thing to note is that working in the recovery terminal is powerful and potentially dangerous. Click on Utilities and select Terminal from the top menu.Thanks to a comment from I found out that you can boot into recovery mode and use the terminal to delete the file. However, in the end it was not necessary. However, the article did indicate that you could also get around the operation not permitted error by disabling SIP (System Integrity Protection). My terminal app (iTerm2.app) had the necessary permissions. Unfortunately, this was not the issue in my case. Without this privilege, you will often get operation not permitted errors in unexpected locations/situations. One of the things this article highlights is that some applications, like terminals and editors (in my case Emacs), need to have the full disk access privilege. I then posted here asking for help and added a comment with a link to a useful article which provided some background on the new security features initially introduced in the previous version of macOS, but extended in Catalina. I also tried sudo rm -rf X11īut this also failed with the same error. I therefore then tried to remove it with sudo i.e. Looking at the link, I could see it was owned by 'root' and in the 'wheel' group. When I first tried to remove the link, I was told the operation was not permitted. Therefore, I thought I would outline what I did to get it resolved in case others find it useful. As this questi9on has had over 1k views, it seems it is a common issue. ![]()
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