> On Nov 10, 2013, at 3:57 PM, Charles Srstka <cocoa...@charlessoft.com> wrote:

> 
> My app reads complex files that may take up to two minutes to completely 
> load. Beachballing while waiting for it is really not an option.

I’m not suggesting you should beachball. I’m suggesting you adopt 
+canConcurrentlyReadFilesOfType: and let NSDocument take care of the 
backgrounding for you.

> 
> Fortunately I don't bother with the autosave stuff (or with saving at all, 
> actually; the app is a viewer only).

File coordination and file-access blocks are orthogonal to Lion Autosave.

(Inset standard doomsday warning that Lion Autosave will not always be 
optional, and your users will consider your app broken if your app does not 
reflect changes made simultaneously to the document by another application.)

--Kyle Sluder
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