XMenu doesn't show all folder contents in Sonoma

Miscellaneous Needful things
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In Sonoma, the Custom (user-defined) menu doesn’t show all the contents of some folders. In a folder containing 27 items, only 7 appear in the submenu for that folder in XMenu. I don’t see anything in Preferences that would affect this. I read the post here at “XMenu not displaying full folder contents in MenuBar dropdown”, which discussed a similar problem with earlier OS versions but did not find a solution.

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Welcome @jrethorst

  • Have you given XMenu Full Disk Access in System Settings > Privacy & Security?
    • If not, you should.
    • If so, provide more information on the issue, like what is specifically in the Finder folder that’s not appearing.
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Yes, I have given XMenu full disk access. XMenu shows 7 files in the Utilities folder: Easyfind, Free Ruler, Keyboard Maestro, Onyx, The Unarchiver, VueScan and XMenu, plus one folder, out of 27 items that are actually in the Utilities folder. None of these are Apple apps, but I don’t see any other common qualities. For the Applications folder, XMenu shows 40 items out of 80 that are actually in the folder. But for the Home user folder, all 16 items there show in XMenu.

Thank you.

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  • What version of XMenu are you running?
  • Does the issue persist after rebooting the Mac?
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XMenu 1.9.11. The problem persists after rebooting.

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I have noticed this issue with the same version of XMenu in MacOS 15.4 Sequoia; a shortened list of Applications is shown in XMenu, but when I click on the folder itself, all applications are there. I’ve now granted full disc access to XMenu and will update if there are any improvements after a restart…

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Which applications are missing and where are they located?

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Running Sequoia 15.5 on a M4 Mini. I too notice Safari is missing from the Applications folder when viewed in Xmenu 1.9.11, but is there when viewed in Finder. I went though all my applications and Safari is the only one showing this behavior. I also notice that Safari.app is unusual because it is shown in a Finder window to only be 14MB in size. Clearly most of Safari is hidden elsewhere. Still, it is listed as an application so it is strange it does not show when all the other applications do. I tried all the previous suggestions about giving it full disk access but I didn’t hold out much hope since all the other applications show. Anyway, doing that didn’t change anything.

There is a simple workaround which is to create an alias of the application and leave the alias in the Applications folder. The alias does appear in Xmenu but my confidence in Xmenu dropped a notch at seeing this behavior (but I still love Xmenu, thank-you!)

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Thanks for the bug report, we’ll check this. Safari is part of my Dock, therefore I’ve never noticed this :wink: