Authorization

QRecall must be granted administrative privileges to perform certain operations in macOS. These include:

• capturing and recalling items belonging to other users
• capturing and recalling system files, certain applications, and items with special attributes
• issuing power requests
• running actions while logged out

QRecall will prompt you to enter an administrator's account name and password when it installs itself, and again following an upgrade. This authorizes QRecall to install a privileged service and perform certain actions with elevated privileges.

Using Administrative Privileges

Checking the Capture and recall items using administrative privileges option instructs all capture and recall actions to use administrative privileges when reading and writing items on the filesystem.

There are very few reasons why you would turn this off, unless you don't have administrative privileges on the system.

• Turn this option on for unfettered access to all files, folders, permissions, and attributes so that QRecall can faithfully capture and restore any item, perform power management requests, and other advanced features.
• Leave this option off if you are not an administrator or only want to capture and recall regular items that belong to your user account.

To set this option, QRecall must be authorized to use administrative privileges.