Thanks for new info, but no, unfortunately, this NSURLIsWritableKey
cannot discriminate between not writable due to file permissions” and
“not writable due to sandbox” cases. The both cases are not writable
for the NSURLIsWritableKey.
I’ve found another workaround but not sure how reliable it is,
On 13 Nov 2013, at 11:46, Oleg Krupnov oleg.krup...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for new info, but no, unfortunately, this NSURLIsWritableKey
cannot discriminate between not writable due to file permissions” and
“not writable due to sandbox” cases. The both cases are not writable
for the
I am not sure what you mean by the failure, could you explain please?
In my experience, if you have read-write sandbox access to a url, you
can create bookmark with and without the
NSURLBookmarkCreationSecurityScopeAllowOnlyReadAccess flag, and it
will create different NSData objects. And if you
On Nov 13, 2013, at 10:19 PM, Oleg Krupnov oleg.krup...@gmail.com wrote:
And as always, my design is asked to be reconsidered. No one wants to
reconsider design of the sandbox itself, that *IS* creating so much
pain in the ass for everyone :)
Because we can't change the sandbox by discussing
Does querying for NSURLIsWritableKey give you any more info?
On 8 Nov 2013, at 16:31, Oleg Krupnov oleg.krup...@gmail.com wrote:
I’m trying to use -[NSFileManager isWritableFileAtPath:], but when it
returns NO, I’d like to know if it’s “no” because the app simply
doesn’t have access to this
I wonder whether you want to do this in the first place. I had tried the
same thing on Windows, that is, checking write permission upfront. I ended
up with just writing and letting it fail if the permission was not granted.
Windows permission rules are very complicated and API is quite unfriendly.
I’m trying to use -[NSFileManager isWritableFileAtPath:], but when it
returns NO, I’d like to know if it’s “no” because the app simply
doesn’t have access to this path due to sandboxing, or is it “no
because the file doesn’t have write permissions set in its file
attributes?
Is there a way to
