The Finder displays the iCloud status (in the cloud, downloading, local) of every file associated with iCloud. How does it do this? Is there a way to search a given local folder and discover what the Finder knows? Is there a way to tell it programmatically to download any icloud files that aren’t downloaded?

Running a MacOS Intel app from XCode 14.1, trying to access the user’s home folders, in this case, the ~/Downloads folder. I get directoryEnumerator error at file:///Users/maurice/Library/Containers/com.utilitybeltsoftware.icloudstatus2/Data/Downloads/: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=256 "The file “Downloads” couldn’t be opened." UserInfo={NSURL=file:///Users/maurice/Library/Containers/com.utilitybeltsoftware.icloudstatus2/Data/Downloads/, NSFilePath=/Users/maurice/Library/Containers/com.utilitybeltsoftware.icloudstatus2/Data/Downloads, NSUnderlyingError=0x6000011b2880 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=20 "Not a directory"}} If I cd to this location, I do get access to the ~/Downloads folder, so the error is not telling the truth. Here is my entitlements plist <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>com.apple.security.app-sandbox</key> <true/> <key>com.apple.security.files.downloads.read-only</key> <true/> <key>com.apple.security.temporary-exception.files.home-relative-path.read-only</key> <array> <string>/Documents/</string> <string>/Desktop/</string> </array> <key>com.apple.security.files.user-selected.read-only</key> <true/> </dict> </plist> By the way, I don’t get prompted to grant access to the app and that seems suspicious.

I created a fresh SwiftUI project and added a button with no code. I built and ran the app and clicked the do nothing button. My app promptly crashed with the following complaint: validateComputeFunctionArguments:830: failed assertion `Compute Function(ciKernelMain): writes texture ([0]) whose usage (0x00) doesn't specify MTLTextureUsageShaderWrite (0x02)' Since the only unusual is that I am running under Parallels virtualization, it implies a conflict between it and a simple swift build.

I just tried to use git and i get a response back it can't find version 13 of the SDK. Of course, that makes sense since I have 14.3 installed, but it's stuck in this loop of demanding I install version 13. How can I tell it that 14.3 is installed? I just tried installing 14.3.1 of Xcode and the tools and that had no effect. Still insists on downgrading.

My client was apparently setup as an internal tester, and they got a message that their App Store Connect account had been deactivated for reasons unknown. Apparently to re-activate it, they have to provide "passport" info, which seems over the top. I thought about setting them up as an external tester, but apparently this requires the app be reviewed by a person who would have no access to the app's login as it restricted to the client. How can I proceed?