Sorry man.  It’s been a long long day.

On Jan 27, 2016, at 9:54 PM, Roland King <r...@rols.org> wrote:

> From the original mail
> 
> "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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> 
>>> 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/zav%40mac.com
>>> 
>>> This email sent to z...@mac.com
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> 
>> 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/rols%40rols.org
>> 
>> This email sent to r...@rols.org
> 

_______________________________________________

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

Reply via email to