I am a 72-yo indie #DigitalHumanities #CitizenScientist. My research involves development of a Ground Truth Storage format for serial publications, primarily magazines and newspapers, supporting an integrated model for document structure and content depiction. I use BaseX in my Python based tool development to interactively capture and publish the XML-based metadata file for this Ground Truth information.

Until recently, I did my development in Windows and had no problems I could not handle. In July of 2020, I suffered a catastrophic spinal cord injury which significantly compromised my dexterity and mobility. During my rehab and recovery, I moved to the Apple device ecosystem as it provides exceptional accessibility features integrated across the phone, tablet, desktop device platform. Adding to these MacOS features, the availability of GitHub Copilot has allowed me to get back to work on my #DigitalHumanities research. This has been an exciting and highly rewarding development, but I have hit a problem that I am having difficulty resolving. I hope that someone within the community can help me figure this out...

Just as with my development setup under Windows, on my M1 iMac I run the BaseX server and access it through my Python scripts. The hiccup I hit, however, is that this Mac setup throws a 'Permission Denied' error when by script tries to access the BaseX server. There have been a large number of package updates, including moving from BaseX 9.x to 10.4 since I last ran my research tools under Windows.

Can anyone help me to understand and resolve this show-stopping issue? I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. And sorry if this issue is addressed in the documentation or mail list archive. I did not see it if available.

Happy Healthy Vibes from Colorado USA,