And I forgot to mention: the persistent store seems to get saved since when I 
restart the app (it's unusable after the CoreData error) the removed entities 
are not present. Curiouser and curiouser.

Martin



On 10, Jan, 2013, at 06:05 PM, Martin Hewitson <martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de> 
wrote:

> 
> On 9, Jan, 2013, at 04:26 PM, Mike Abdullah <cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 8 Jan 2013, at 05:53, Martin Hewitson wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jan 7, 2013, at 08:44 PM, Mike Abdullah <cocoa...@mikeabdullah.net> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 7 Jan 2013, at 16:35, Martin Hewitson <martin.hewit...@aei.mpg.de> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Francisco,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for the feedback!
>>>>> 
>>>>> What you suggest sounds like it might fix the problem, but I'm wondering 
>>>>> how best to do this. Currently I'm just calling -remove: on the tree 
>>>>> controller to delete the selected object(s). Of course, if I clear the 
>>>>> selection first, then -remove: doesn't do anything. I can grab an array 
>>>>> of the selected objects before clearing the selection then use 
>>>>> NSManagedObjectContext's -deleteObject:. So something like this:
>>>>> 
>>>>> // get a pointer to the selected items
>>>>> NSArray *items = [self selectedObjects];
>>>>> 
>>>>> // clear selection
>>>>> [self setSelectionIndexPaths:@[]];
>>>>> 
>>>>> // now delete from the MOC
>>>>> for (NSManagedObject *item in items) {
>>>>>  [self.managedObjectContext deleteObject:item];
>>>>>  [self.managedObjectContext processPendingChanges];
>>>>> }
>>>>> 
>>>>> Does that look sensible to you?
>>>> 
>>>> Why are you calling -processPendingChanges at each iteration of the loop? 
>>>> Calling it yourself is rarely needed, and best done only with 
>>>> justification.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I read in that thread that I referenced (I think) that it may be necessary 
>>> to do this to avoid/handle objects being deleted twice (if a parent and 
>>> child are selected, then deleted). To be honest, I'm just trying things to 
>>> see what works. Since this problem only occurs on 10.6.8, I think I'm 
>>> looking for a work-around.
>> 
>> Hmm. In my case I go to some lengths to figure out which objects don't need 
>> to be deleted, because an ancestor has already been deleted. It does seem 
>> simpler your way.
>> 
>> I wonder though — I don't believe there is any harm in asking Core Data to 
>> delete an object that's already been marked for deletion. And indeed, you 
>> code is doing that. The difference the -processPendingChanges call makes is 
>> that handling the delete rule will happen during that call, so child objects 
>> are already marked for deletion.
>> 
> 
> However, I'm still not able to get this to work on 10.6.8.  Having the 
> -processPendingChanges call seems to make no difference.
> 
> The code I currently have in my -remove: method of the NSTreeController 
> subclass is
> 
>    // get a pointer to the selected items
>    NSArray *items = [self selectedObjects];
> 
>    // clear selection
>    [self.outlineView selectRowIndexes:[NSIndexSet indexSet] 
> byExtendingSelection:NO];
>    [self setSelectionIndexPaths:@[]];
> 
>    // now from the MOC
>    for (NSManagedObject *item in items) {
>      [self removeObjectAtArrangedObjectIndexPath:[self 
> indexPathToObject:item]];
>      [self.managedObjectContext deleteObject:item];
>      [self.managedObjectContext processPendingChanges];
>    }
> 
> (-indexPathToObject: comes from a category NSTreeController_Extensions.h from 
> Jonathan Dann)
> 
> Despite this, I must still have a reference to a deleted object somewhere, 
> but I've no idea where. Could there be other reasons for getting the 
> "CodeData could not fulfull a fault" error?
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> 


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