Re: Security-scoped bookmark feature?
Re: Security-scoped bookmark feature?
- Subject: Re: Security-scoped bookmark feature?
- From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2012 09:25:06 +1000
On 03/09/2012, at 9:04 AM, Todd Heberlein <email@hidden> wrote:
> I ran across an interesting behavior and potentially useful feature with security scoped bookmarks. I hadn't run across this in my reading before. Is this an official behavior?
>
> It turns out that once you've created an app-scoped bookmark for a file (after the user selected it in an OpenPanel), you can rename or move (same thing I guess) the file, and the bookmark still blesses it. And extracting the file path from the bookmark data gives you the new path, not the original one. So you can move the file around, and the program can still find it and access it through the bookmark.
>
> Pretty cool. Even if you weren't doing the bookmarking for sandboxing, I think it is a handy feature.
I think what you're really seeing is the benefit of bookmarks in general. They track files in the same way that olde-worlde aliases did. The security-scoping is a new graft-on for bookmarks, and presumably are applied after the bookmark has been resolved, and so I would expect the outcome you're seeing.
--Graham
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