On 4 Oct 2012, at 20:18, Marshall Houskeeper <mhouskee...@media100.com> wrote:
> Hi Mike, > > Our products are a video/audio editor application and video effect plugins. > In both cases, our file formats (data block for plugin data) can store many > file references. Our files keep references to file types such as quicktime > movies, audio files and text files as well as links to our program and bin > files. We have been shipping products well before the introduction of > security-scoped bookmarks. Our customers have very large libraries of edited > shows that they often go back to edit or review. The data for these > programs is often spread across multiple disk volumes. Right, so how are you storing that reference? A raw path? I wasn't terribly clear I'm afraid: Bookmark data was introduced in OS X 10.6. It's only with 10.7.3 that you could generate security-scoped bookmarks. The two are completely compatible though; 10.6 can happily handle security-scoped bookmarks. And 10.7+ can decode the old bookmarks, just without the ability to actually access them. Another approach you could take, or perhaps do alongside the document-scoped bookmarks, is to ask the user what disks/folders they're using for the project. You can then save an application-scoped bookmark to that, granting you access forever more. > > Another wrinkle to the problem: Users commonly wil move/delete and then > restore to the same or another disk the audio/video/image data while changing > projects. One feature that we provide that will also break under sandboxing > is the ability to scan the local and network drives to relink media the has > been moved or restored to a new location. Well you can pop up an open panel asking to select a folder/disk to scan. That grants you access to perform the task at least. _______________________________________________ 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
