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.

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.

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?