I have a thought.  Do you have a binding somewhere on a property in 
NSUserDefaults?  Maybe your document is getting synchronized to iCloud and/or 
getting autosaved very often?  These are things I’ve seen that can cause 
uncharacteristically often updates.
--
Gary L. Wade
http://www.garywade.com/ <http://www.garywade.com/>
> On Oct 18, 2016, at 7:32 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann <g...@mdenkmann.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 19 Oct 2016, at 02:00,Jerome Krinock <je...@ieee.org>:
>> 
>>> On 2016 Oct 14, at 23:08, Gerriet M. Denkmann <g...@mdenkmann.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> My app (macOS 12) observes a value in NSUserDefaults.  Starting with macOS 
>>> 12 observeValueForKeyPath:… is called at the start of the program, although 
>>> nothing has changed yet.  When the value actually changes, it is called 
>>> twice.
>> 
>> I just added some code to one of my apps, to test this.  It confirmed your 
>> observations, although I only tested in 10.12.
>> 
>>> Also: NSKeyValueObservingOptionNew or NSKeyValueObservingOptionOld just 
>>> return NSNull instead of old or new values.
>> 
>> That only happens during that first spurious call, when the observer is 
>> added.
> 
> Happens for me all the time. Never seen anything other than NSNull.
> 
> Current work-around: just ignore every second notification (i.e. ginore 1., 
> 3rd, 5th etc.).
> Not a very good solution, rather bound to break sooner or later. But okay for 
> the time being.
> 
>> 
>>> If indeed this behavior is new in 10.12, it certainly warrants a Bug Report.
> 
> Ok, will do so.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Gerriet.

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