Cannot save keybindings when using the app bundle on MacOS 15.5

[awildbobcat]

Hi,
I'm unable to save any edit to the keybindings when running the .app bundle directly.
This works fine when running the executable directly /Applications/Binary Ninja.app/Contents/MacOS/binaryninja.

In both cases, the user configuration file in ~/Library/Application Support/Binary Ninja/keybindings.json seems to be ignored.

When running the executable directly and editing the bindings, a keybinding.json file is created in the current working directory from where the executable was launched.

I suspect that the keybindings.json file is read from and written to using the current working directory. When running the app bundle, the current working directory is set by the OS to a read-only directory, preventing me from saving my bindings.

Running sudo fs_usage -w | grep -i keybindings.json -C1 and opening a new Binary Ninja process suggests a relative path is used:

0.000001   binaryninja.229398
21:45:55.384608  stat64                 [  2]           keybindings.json

I am using the latest free version (5.1.8005) on MacOS 15.5.

[psifertex]

Are you sure this isn't just the macOS file system permissions (well, not file system per-se but the new security model overlay) preventing you from writing there? Double check your settings / security and privacy maybe?

[awildbobcat]

Even when granting Full Disk Access, keybindings are not saved :(.

Do you have any other settings in mind?

Other "settings" such as recent files are correctly saved.

[bdash]

There is a bug here related to how key bindings are read / written in the free version that can result in the observed behavior.

[awildbobcat]

Thanks for the confirmation!

Should I file an issue in the Github issue tracker ?

[bdash]

Wrote up #7253 about this.

[awildbobcat]

Thank you for the quick response!
I'm considering switching to a paid license in a few months, but it's great to see such reactivity :)