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Error received: "unable to resolve root". How to grant access to watchman?

I installed a react-native starter project and when running, it asked to grant permission to watchman to access my system's files. I naively declined, but now I get the following error whenever trying to run the folder:

Error: unable to resolve root /Users/ckoong/Desktop/Repos/rn-starter: failed to opendir(/Users/ckoong/Desktop/Repos/rn-starter): Operation not permitted
    at BunserBuf.<anonymous> (/Users/ckoong/Desktop/Repos/rn-starter/node_modules/fb-watchman/index.js:95:23)
    at BunserBuf.emit (events.js:315:20)
    at BunserBuf.process (/Users/ckoong/Desktop/Repos/rn-starter/node_modules/bser/index.js:292:10)
    at /Users/ckoong/Desktop/Repos/rn-starter/node_modules/bser/index.js:247:12
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:75:11)
Emitted 'error' event on WatchmanWatcher instance at:
    at Client.<anonymous> (/Users/ckoong/Desktop/Repos/rn-starter/node_modules/jest-haste-map/build/lib/WatchmanWatcher.js:130:10)
    at Client.emit (events.js:315:20)
    at BunserBuf.<anonymous> (/Users/ckoong/Desktop/Repos/rn-starter/node_modules/fb-watchman/index.js:107:12)
    at BunserBuf.emit (events.js:315:20)
    at /Users/ckoong/Desktop/Repos/rn-starter/node_modules/bser/index.js:249:12
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:75:11) {
  watchmanResponse: {
    version: '4.7.0',
    error: 'unable to resolve root /Users/ckoong/Desktop/Repos/rn-starter: failed to opendir(/Users/ckoong/Desktop/Repos/rn-starter): Operation not permitted'

I've seen various people saying to grant access to watchman in system preferences, however, when searching in the window, I'm not seeing any reference to watchman anywhere on my system.

I'm working on Big Sur.

Please assist.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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Go to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy tab -> scroll down and click Full Disk Access, and then check Watchman.

over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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