> On 13 Apr 2015, at 15:01, Mike Abdullah <mabdul...@karelia.com> wrote:
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> I think the document system monitors the file, and calls -setFileURL: when it 
> detects a change.
Good catch there Mike!

-setFileURL: does indeed get called immediately the file gets renamed, moved or 
trashed, 
I am not sure that my data layer can tolerate the mutation just yet but at 
least I am in on the action now.

Thanks a lot.

Jonathan
> 
> I’m not sure how careful that monitoring is, though, whether it happens 
> continuously, or only at the moment the app or document regains focus.
> 
>> On 13 Apr 2015, at 14:19, Jonathan Mitchell <jonat...@mugginsoft.com> wrote:
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>> I have a Cocoa document app that represents a sqlite backed document type 
>> (its not CoreData).
>> Users can (and do) delete documents while they are open in the app.
>> The app then crashes in the sqlite data layer whenever data access occurs.
>> The data layer is Mono based, not Cocoa.
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>> I want to try and deal with this situation in a less dramatic way than a 
>> crash.
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>> TextEdit.app can detect when an open file moves to the trash and throws up a 
>> popover - though I cannot trace this down in the example source.
>> 
>> I know about the existence of NSFileImmutable but is that the route to take?
>> 
>> Any input would be a help.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Jonathan
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