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Scanning Macintosh HD produces single .nofollow file since update to macOS 26.1
A user of one of my apps reported that since the update to macOS 26.1 they are no longer able to scan Macintosh HD: the app used to work, but now always reports that Macintosh HD contains a single empty file named .nofollow, or rather the path is resolved to /.nofollow. Initially I thought this could be related to resolving the file from the saved bookmark data, but even restarting the app and selecting Macintosh HD in an open panel (without resolving the bookmark data) produces the same result. The user tried another app of mine with the same issue, but said that they were able to scan Macintosh HD in other App Store apps. I never heard of this issue before and my apps have been on the App Store for many years, but it looks like I might be doing something wrong, or the APIs that I use are somehow broken. In all my apps I currently use getattrlistbulk because I need attributes that are not available as URLResourceKey in all supported operating system versions. What could be the issue? I'm on macOS 26.1 myself and never experienced it.
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Dec ’25
Overriding NSDocument.prepareSavePanel(_:) hides file format popup button
I would like to provide a default filename when saving a document depending on the document data. I thought I could do so by overriding NSDocument.prepareSavePanel(_:) and setting NSSavePanel.nameFieldStringValue, but simply implementing that method seems to hide the file format popup button shown by default (see image). Calling super doesn't help. Is it possible to set a default filename and keep the file format popup button? On macOS 15, I can toggle NSSavePanel.showsContentTypes, but how about macOS 14 and older?
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: AppKit Tags:
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URL.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource() returns false for "On My iPad" after a while
My app allows to save user-selected URLs in a list and browse them with a tap. A user reported that the app often shows that when browsing their saved entry for "On My iPad", it's apparently empty (it contains no files). I saved "On My iPad" in my own list some time ago and noticed that the same issue occurs. The URL seems to be correctly resolved from the saved bookmark data, but I noticed that url.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource() returns false. The other URL I saved some time ago is iCloud Drive, which I can access without issues. If I select "On My iPad" again in a file importer, create new bookmark data from it and resolve the URL from it, access works correctly. I create bookmark data like this: let data = try url.bookmarkData(includingResourceValuesForKeys: [.localizedNameKey, .pathKey, .volumeIsLocalKey]) and resolve URLs like this: let url = try URL(resolvingBookmarkData: data, bookmarkDataIsStale: &bookmarkDataIsStale) bookmarkDataIsStale is false for both the working and not working URLs for "On My iPad". The two bookmark data are different though, even if url.path is the same. What could be the issue?
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UIMainMenuSystem: remove "Paste and Match Style" item from Edit menu
The default app menu on iPadOS 26 includes an Edit menu with items (among others) Cut, Copy, Paste, Paste and Match Style. I want to remove the last one. I tried the following but nothing worked: let configuration = UIMainMenuSystem.Configuration() configuration.textFormattingPreference = .removed UIMainMenuSystem.shared.setBuildConfiguration(configuration) { builder in builder.remove(action: .pasteAndMatchStyle) if let command = builder.menu(for: .edit)?.children.first(where: { ($0 as? UICommand)?.action == #selector(UIResponderStandardEditActions.pasteAndMatchStyle(_:)) }) as? UICommand { command.attributes.insert(.hidden) } }
Topic: UI Frameworks SubTopic: UIKit Tags:
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App Store doesn't display English among available languages for my new app
I published several apps in the past that display the correct languages in the App Store, but my newest app, which has English as the default development language in Xcode, displays all languages set in Xcode except English. My other projects seem to be set up in the exact same way, except they display correctly. What could be the issue? Xcode project info: Localizable.xcstrings (English is also fully localized): App Store Connect website: App Store page (my Mac has the primary language set to Italian):
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SpriteKit scene used as SCNView.overlaySKScene crashes due to SKShapeNode
I recently published my first game on the App Store. It uses SceneKit with a SpriteKit overlay. All crashes Xcode downloaded for it so far are related to some SpriteKit/SceneKit internals. The most common crash is caused by SKCShapeNode::_NEW_copyRenderPathData. What could cause such a crash? crash.crash While developing this game (and the BoardGameKit framework that appears in the crash log) over the years I experienced many crashes presumably caused by the SpriteKit overlay (I opened a post SceneKit app randomly crashes with EXC_BAD_ACCESS in jet_context::set_fragment_texture about such a crash in September 2024), and other people on the internet also mention that they experience crashes when using SpriteKit as a SceneKit overlay. Should I use a separate SKView and lay it on top of SCNView rather than setting SCNView.overlaySKScene? That seemed to solve the crashes for a guy on stackoverflow, but is it also encouraged by Apple? I know SceneKit is deprecated, but according to Apple critical bugs would still be fixed. Could this be considered a critical bug?
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filecopy fails with errno 34 "Result too large" when copying from NAS
A user of my app reported that when my app copies files from a QNAP NAS to a folder on their Mac, they get the error "Result too large". When copying the same files from the Desktop, it works. I asked them to reproduce the issue with the sample code below and they confirmed that it reproduces. They contacted QNAP for support who in turn contacted me saying that they are not sure they can do anything about it, and asking if Apple can help. Both the app user and QNAP are willing to help, but at this point I'm also unsure how to proceed. Can someone at Apple say anything about this? Is this something QNAP should solve, or is this a bug in macOS? P.S.: I've had users in the past who reported the same issue with other brands, mostly Synology. import Cocoa @main class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate { func applicationDidFinishLaunching(_ aNotification: Notification) { let openPanel = NSOpenPanel() openPanel.canChooseDirectories = true openPanel.runModal() let source = openPanel.urls[0] openPanel.canChooseFiles = false openPanel.runModal() let destination = openPanel.urls[0] do { try copyFile(from: source, to: destination.appendingPathComponent(source.lastPathComponent, isDirectory: false)) } catch { NSAlert(error: error).runModal() } NSApp.terminate(nil) } private func copyFile(from source: URL, to destination: URL) throws { if try source.resourceValues(forKeys: [.isDirectoryKey]).isDirectory == true { try FileManager.default.createDirectory(at: destination, withIntermediateDirectories: false) for source in try FileManager.default.contentsOfDirectory(at: source, includingPropertiesForKeys: nil) { try copyFile(from: source, to: destination.appendingPathComponent(source.lastPathComponent, isDirectory: false)) } } else { try copyRegularFile(from: source, to: destination) } } private func copyRegularFile(from source: URL, to destination: URL) throws { let state = copyfile_state_alloc() defer { copyfile_state_free(state) } var bsize = UInt32(16_777_216) if copyfile_state_set(state, UInt32(COPYFILE_STATE_BSIZE), &bsize) != 0 { throw NSError(domain: NSPOSIXErrorDomain, code: Int(errno)) } else if copyfile_state_set(state, UInt32(COPYFILE_STATE_STATUS_CB), unsafeBitCast(copyfileCallback, to: UnsafeRawPointer.self)) != 0 { throw NSError(domain: NSPOSIXErrorDomain, code: Int(errno)) } else if copyfile(source.path, destination.path, state, copyfile_flags_t(COPYFILE_DATA | COPYFILE_SECURITY | COPYFILE_NOFOLLOW | COPYFILE_EXCL | COPYFILE_XATTR)) != 0 { throw NSError(domain: NSPOSIXErrorDomain, code: Int(errno)) } } private let copyfileCallback: copyfile_callback_t = { what, stage, state, src, dst, ctx in if what == COPYFILE_COPY_DATA { if stage == COPYFILE_ERR { return COPYFILE_QUIT } } return COPYFILE_CONTINUE } }
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