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AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 6:42 pm

hibrasil wrote:does anyone know how you reset the security settings of garageband/logic X. I previously clicked "lower security settings" but would now like to try it as it was

cheers

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Buy a new Mac.

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I kill me!)

george · Post by **george** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 6:47 pm

Using Terminal type:

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defaults delete com.apple.audio.SandboxHelper

It will reset security settings.

hibrasil · Post by **hibrasil** » Sat Nov 16, 2013 6:51 pm

thanks george

Blue Cat Audio · Post by **Blue Cat Audio** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 2:00 pm

AdmiralQuality wrote: Buy a new Mac.

That's a pretty good one!

hibrasil · Post by **hibrasil** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 2:08 pm

can anyone suggest a good place to store global plugin prefs, preset banks in the sandbox world other than ~/Music?
needs to work across hosts of course.

thanks

george · Post by **george** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 2:41 pm

We store ours at ~/Documents/discoDSP but it's not a sandbox safe location.

I think Apple recommends to place them at ~/Music/Audio Music Apps/

Here it is a list of all folders placed there after a Logic X install (GarageBand X shares some too):

http://pastebin.com/TanzYPCp

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Mon Nov 18, 2013 2:46 pm

hibrasil · Post by **hibrasil** » Sat Dec 07, 2013 7:34 pm

ok, looks like ~/Music it is. Do you know if you have to use a security-scoped bookmark, or can you just write to ~Music/MyApp/ freely?

EDIT -> seems like i can write into ~/Music just fine, without flagging up any sandboxd error messages. This is just using fopen/fwrite - without security scoped bookmarks etc

DaveHoskins · Post by **DaveHoskins** » Tue Dec 10, 2013 7:21 pm

hibrasil wrote:ok, looks like ~/Music it is. Do you know if you have to use a security-scoped bookmark, or can you just write to ~Music/MyApp/ freely?

EDIT -> seems like i can write into ~/Music just fine, without flagging up any sandboxd error messages. This is just using fopen/fwrite - without security scoped bookmarks etc

Does the user need administrator rights for that location?
I find it amazing that I can't use Preferences any more, I just don't understand!

george · Post by **george** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 9:58 pm

DaveHoskins wrote:
hibrasil wrote:ok, looks like ~/Music it is. Do you know if you have to use a security-scoped bookmark, or can you just write to ~Music/MyApp/ freely?

EDIT -> seems like i can write into ~/Music just fine, without flagging up any sandboxd error messages. This is just using fopen/fwrite - without security scoped bookmarks etc
Does the user need administrator rights for that location?
I find it amazing that I can't use Preferences any more, I just don't understand!

You could use ~/Music/Audio Music Apps/Plug-In Settings/myApp/ and ~/Music/Audio Music Apps/myApp/ instead.

hibrasil · Post by **hibrasil** » Thu Dec 12, 2013 10:53 pm

user has read/write permissions to ~/Music so I am using ~/Music/My Plugin/

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 9:26 pm

hibrasil wrote:user has read/write permissions to ~/Music so I am using ~/Music/My Plugin/

I went with this, but a customer just warned me that anything under ~/Music can potentially get shared back to Apple's cloud, making it a bad place to put key files.

Anyone know anything about this?

And does anyone know if a plug-in can reliably (across all recent OSX versions) write a file into ~/Application Support/Somefolder/ if Somefolder is already created?

aciddose · Post by **aciddose** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 9:56 pm

You can't rely upon anything. A folder in application support should be fully accessible, but the permissions could be changed.

For the rare case that a permissions issue could occur it would likely be best to just check for error after every operation and report to the user if files couldn't be read/written and your "plan B" doesn't work.

It is likely in such a case they'll need support anyway, so printing a message like "Failure accessing application data, code ####. Please file a support ticket at http://companysite" will just speed that up.

If you end up with lots of those you can adjust plans A and B to try to solve that.

If your directory is called "admiral quality/poly-ana/" it is extremely unlikely it would have been created by anything other than your own plugins or installer and so a permissions issue would have to be due to some action by the user.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac ... ndbox.html

AdmiralQuality · Post by **AdmiralQuality** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 10:01 pm

aciddose wrote: For the rare case that a permissions issue could occur...

Have you done ANY Mac development?

aciddose · Post by **aciddose** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 10:02 pm

Yes, with over 100 beta testers there have been zero reports of permission issues. (For access to the application support directory.)

Anyone making "Sandbox-Safe" Audio Units?