Re: New allowsExternalBinaryDataStorage in Core Data

2011-08-25 Thread Frédéric Testuz
Thanks, Then for application where the user can choose the location of document, you can use it safely only if the store is in a package. If the document is moved/copied, the extern data are also moved/copied. I had made some test with stores in the Desktop and after your reply I had found man

Re: New allowsExternalBinaryDataStorage in Core Data

2011-08-25 Thread Steven Vandeweghe
It seems that when the image (or data in general) is larger than 1MB, it's stored in a hidden folder in the same place as your main database. For example, if the application is called MyLionApp and its persistent store is located in the ~/Library/MyLionApp folder, the external files would be sto

New allowsExternalBinaryDataStorage in Core Data

2011-08-03 Thread Frédéric Testuz
Hello, I looked at the Core Data release notes of Lion, I also looked the "What's new in Core Data on Mac OS X" video of the WWDC 2011. And I have a question about the new allowsExternalBinaryDataStorage option for binary attribute. I did some test with an attribute for images. I can see that w