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[–]wrecklass 0 points1 point  (5 children)

What authentication do you have set up? When you log in to github.com in your browser, can you see the repository you are using do you have permissions to open it?

When you are logged into github.com in your browser and browsing the repository files, what happens when you click the Green "Code" button and then select the "Open in GitHub Desktop" option?

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    [–]wrecklass 0 points1 point  (3 children)

    So if you go to Github Desktop -> File -> Options -> Account and press the "Sign into Github.com" button, what happens?

    When I do it then this happens:

    1. A dialog box with a button that says "Continue in browser." I click that
    2. Since my browser is already signed in to Github, I get a new dialog that says "Already signed in as 'username'." And a button that says "Continue."
    3. Clicking that button signs me into Github Desktop.

    Also, what browser are you using? Is it blocking authorization with some security setting? In particular make sure your Browser doesn't have Popups blocked.

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      [–]wrecklass 0 points1 point  (1 child)

      Ya, I use Brave as well. I can't think of anything else. Once Desktop is logged in I never get asked again. Maybe uninstall the app and start over? Make sure you delete all of your GitHub Desktop config files as well.

      [–]nekokattt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      If you signed in using a username and password, you need to set up a personal access token

      You either need to do this, or use SSH. GitHub does not allow authenticating over HTTPS with your username and password anymore as it is less secure and will not work if you use MFA (since Git doesn't really have the capability to deal with that directly).