On 22 Feb 2013, at 01:34, Nick wrote: > Hello. > I am working on a plugin for Mail.app for Mountain Lion. The problem is > whenever I try to save a file, I am getting an error. Which can be > explained by the fact that Mail.app is sandboxed and I am not allowed to > modify files anywhere on the system. > So what I do instead - is call > > > TempDir = [[[NSFileManager defaultManager] URLForDirectory: > NSDownloadsDirectory inDomain:NSUserDomainMask appropriateForURL:nil create: > YES error:nil] path]; > > > and then create in this TempDir another directory using standard > NSFileManager functions. > On my Mail.app it works, on another system - it doesn't (the dir doesn't > get created). I can't understand why. I was hoping to store a temporary > file in Downloads, since Mail obviously should have access to this > directory.
Why should Mail "obviously should have access to this directory”? > > I also tried calling this > > TempDir = [[[[NSFileManager defaultManager] > URLForDirectory:NSItemReplacementDirectory inDomain:NSUserDomainMask > appropriateForURL:[NSURL URLWithString: > @"file:///private/var/tmp/my.great.app"] create:YES error:nil] path] > retain]; > > > On my 10.8 system it works, on another - it doesn't (I can't save files to > TempDir from my plugin). What am I doing wrong? You’re not consulting/logging the error message for a start . That will tell you *why* it fails. _______________________________________________ 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
