https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128956
--- Comment #25 from Patrick Luby <plub...@neooffice.org> --- (In reply to Alex Thurgood from comment #22) > FWIW, this still occurs. > > For example with LO7362 from the Apple AppStore, and LO7412 from the > LibreOffice download page, the user is asked to re-authorise access to some > of the folders that I presume are referenced in the recently accessed files > list. That sounds like the normal macOS sandbox behavior. There is a whole process around "acquiring privileges to open a file" when running a Mac App Store app that do not apply to non-Mac App Store apps. In the Mac App Store, the only way LibreOffice can open a file is if the file has previously been opened via an Open or Save dialog or buy opening by double-clicking or dragging the file from the Finder. Otherwise, opening the file will fail. In the macOS sandbox, these "open file" permissions are temporary and are lost if they are not cached. Even if the previous permissions are cached, you have to reestablish the previous permissions *before* you try to open the file. And reestablishing previous permissions still sometimes fails. I dealt with this in the early days of NeoOffice. I literally had to add a bunch of code *in every place that LibreOffice opens a file* that shows an open dialog for the folder that the file you want to open is in. It was awful coding that and was, at best, an elaborate hack. Plus the random Open dialog confused a lot of people. It was unmaintainable which is one of the reasons I am working on LibreOffice now. What infuriates me is that Apple stubbornly continues to enforce their overly restrictive sandbox idea on Mac App Store apps, but non-Mac App Store have no such restrictions. If Apple's sandbox code at least triggered a native dialog along the lines of "the application wants to access this file, do you want to grant permission?" would alleviate a lot of the pain of working within the sandbox. But no, the only way to get the user's permission to open a file is to slow a generic Open dialog. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
