On Apr 6, 2015, at 11:49:10, Steve Mills <sjmi...@mac.com> wrote: > > Say we have this structure: > > Pictures > LotsOfFolderAliiInHere > AliasToRealFolder > RealFolder > blah.jpg > > The sandboxed app lets the user choose a folder to process, and processing > will use an NSDirectoryEnumerator to recursively go through all items in the > chosen folder and add images to the document, and the user chooses > LotsOfFolderAliiInHere. When the app gets to AliasToRealFolder, it does the > right thing and resolves the alias using > URLByResolvingAliasFileAtURL:options:error:. Then it creates the directory > enumerator for that resolved folder, where sandboxing says "oh no you di-n't" > and denies access to a folder that was in the parent folder the user chose by > way of alias, thereby crippling the user's longstanding way of structuring > their folder hierarchy. > > Is there any way around this hideous omission of what sandboxing should allow? > > Every time I see a shooting star, I wish hard that sandboxing gets ripped out > en masse in 10.11 and replaced with something that works without causing such > headaches and roadblocks for developers and users.
Submitted radar://20483547. -- Steve Mills Drummer, Mac geek _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
