On Sep 22, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Sean McBride wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:26:20 +0800, Peter N Lewis said:
> 
>> The explicit entitlement to read a file following an open/drag exists
>> only until the application quits (a fragile exception exists in using
>> URLs stored into the restorable state archive, but even that won't work
>> long term).  Thus keeping references to files is essentially impossible
>> (long term) in a sandboxed application - bizarre.
> 
> One can only hope that this is because App Sandbox is currently not fully 
> baked.
> 
> Otherwise, how would something like Xcode work sandboxed?  An .xcodeproj 
> contains zillions of relative paths to files that the user, at some point in 
> the past, explicitly added.

Or implicitly if your project is so big that the blue-folder options works 
better. 

> 
> Either App Sandbox is unfinished, or Apple is taking us towards of word of 
> iFart-type apps only.


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