> This isn't every other platform, this is Mac OS X and all the baggage that > goes along with it! :) > > What do you actually need access to user.home for? Do you have empirical > evidence that this will break your application? > > The whole point of sandboxing is you no longer have direct access to the > entire system. The app must play inside it's sandbox, period, end of story. > Gone are the days of unrestricted access to the filesystem, that's the whole > point of sandboxing! This is all pretty well outlined in the "Sandboxing Your > App" documentation on ADC. > > Powerbox is there to solve your problem of opening user documents (with the > right entitlements) and there are mechanisms in place to allow opening > related files (with the users permission of course). Even a sandboxed > application can show the user the contents of his various folders in a file > open dialog. This all happens regardless of whether NSHomeDirectory returns > /Users/JoeBob or /Users/JoeBob/Library/Containers/com.blah.someapp
That should have been: /Users/JoeBob/Library/Containers/com.blah.someapp/Data Which, btw, is a shadow of the users home directory... including symlinks to various folders contained therein. -DrD-
