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"Note this isn’t a sandboxed app, so that shouldn’t come into it.”


> On 28 Jan 2016, at 10:51, Alex Zavatone <z...@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> According to the sandboxing docs, I recall that for sandboxing, there are a 
> certain set of locations where you can save files to without requiring user 
> permission.  Your ~/Documents folder is one of them. IIRC, all other 
> locations require user confirmation to save the files.
> 
> Try saving to the docs folder and/or trying writing to the desktop with 
> sandboxing disabled.
> 
> On Jan 27, 2016, at 8:42 PM, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
>> I use -[NSData writeToURL:options:error] to write data to files in a 
>> location generally chosen by the user. That works fine.
>> 
>> The default location is ~/Desktop, if the user fails to choose anything, or 
>> if the bookmark of the previously chosen location fails to resolve. However, 
>> when I try to write the file I get an error 513, ‘you don’t have 
>> permission’, underlying error 1, operation not permitted’. If the user 
>> chooses the Desktop themselves using the Open panel, it works fine.
>> 
>> The ~/Desktop permissions seem to be OK - I have readwrite permission on 
>> that folder.
>> 
>> So something is weird about the URL for ~/Desktop when I create it 
>> programatically as opposed to what NSOpenPanel returns. Note this isn’t a 
>> sandboxed app, so that shouldn’t come into it.
>> 
>> I create the default URL thusly:
>> 
>>                      NSURL* desktopURL = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] 
>> URLForDirectory:NSDesktopDirectory inDomain:NSUserDomainMask 
>> appropriateForURL:nil create:YES error:&error];
>> 
>> 
>> I can’t see any obvious difference between the URL here and the one I get 
>> from NSOpenPanel, but there must be one.
>> 
>> 
>> Any ideas what the problem could be here?
>> 
>> —Graham
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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