Hello folks, While the API for FileProviderUI is listed as supporting VisionOS 1.0, Xcode Cloud complains at the first step of the build with: "Unsupported Platform. The extension bundle LaTerminal.app/PlugIns/LaTerminalFileProviderUI.appex is not supported for this platform. Please refer to the App Extension Programming Guide at http://developer.apple.com." I also noticed that while you can create a FileExtension from Xcode, there is no template for creating the FileExtensionUI on Xcode for VisionOS projects. Could use some guidance as to what I could be doing wrong.

Hello all, When copying a lot of files using NSFileProviderReplicatedExtension (more than 2000 files) to the a local storage, fetchContents is called for each file, but usually after around 2000 files, fetchContents is not called anymore. No errors, no invalidate() called, no cancelations, no log messages, just silence. Is there any explanation or solution for this behaviour? I want the extension to provide all files until the end. By the way, if the transfer fails, but you double click on the local folder a "Finish Copying" option is presented and after that fetchContents for the remaining files is called (which is good). Thank you.

Hello, Anyone know of relevant documentation that captures the difference between vfsStruct.f_fsid and fstat.st_ino ? sys/stat.h declares: ino_t st_ino; /* [XSI] File serial number */ AND sys/statvfs.h declares: unsigned long f_fsid; /* Filesystem ID */ Based on some tests, it seems that the st_ino is the number/inode_number that the filesystem identifies the file-resource by ? I observed that this number gets a unique value when I copy a file even when the Finder/FS utilizes the Space-Saver feature of MacOS. This value is identical to the results returned by the command ls "-i" . When copying via Finder, I am seeing distinct st_ino values for source and destination files. f_fsid seems to be identifying the File differently though, perhaps taking into account what Data/attributes objects the file resource points to ? I observed that this number gets an identical value when I copy a file even when the Finder/FS utilizes the Space-Saver feature of MacOS. So, the value of f_fsid seems to be copied over to the destination file record. Also, I could not find a way to display f_fsid via the ls command. On a related note, Any documentation regarding MacOS Finder/FS's Space-Saver feature or how it is implemented ? Thanks, Vikram.S.Warraich

I am trying to populate the Finder comment field from extendedAttributes with the code bellow but it doesn't work. Any idea why ? var extendedAttributes: [String : Data] { var attrs = [String: Data]() let comment = self.caption do { let xmlPlistData = try PropertyListSerialization.data(fromPropertyList: comment as Any, format: .xml, options: 0) attrs["com.apple.metadata:kMDItemFinderComment"] = xmlPlistData } catch { NSLog("Error during plist conversion: \(error)") } return attrs }

Hello, I have another quick question. I'm using NSFileProviderReplicatedExtension to create a macOS File Provider app to access remote files directly in Finder. When I copy a file to a remote folder (managed by File Provider) "createItem(basedOn itemTemplate: NSFileProviderItem, fields: NSFileProviderItemFields ....)" is triggered and this is fine. But immediately after the file is upload fetchContents(for itemIdentifier: NSFileProviderItemIdentifier, version ...)" is also triggered. Is this expected? Downloading again the file after upload requires some time and it's not the best experience for the user if he is in a hurry. Is there any way to prevent this? Thank you.

Hello, I'm having some problems in implementing a File Provider based app. NSFileProviderEnumerator is very slow for many files (over 2000 files). I'm using pagination like this: observer.didEnumerate(paged_files) // page size is usually 200 let nextPage = NSFileProviderPage((page + 1).description.data(using: .utf8)!) observer.finishEnumerating(upTo: nextPage) and observer.finishEnumerating(upTo: nil) when finished all pages. But after calling "observer.finishEnumerating(upTo: nil)" it still takes a lot of time (20-30 seconds) until all files are listed in Finder. Any tips? Thank you.

Hello, I have a quick question. In my File Provider based Mac application, if the user copies a folder to his computer, the "download" progress indicator near the folder name (the one from Finder) is showing only if the user entered the folder before. If the user did not enter the folder before and copies the folder, the progress indicator is showing always zero and jumps to 100% after the copy operation is over. Any thought on this? Thank you.

Hi, Can a customized Pages document be created and integrated into an Apple Multiplatform App? Thank you!

hi,i want to create a NSFileProviderExtension , need add file for storage, but, i create a folder, xocde show a error : [ERROR] List of user interactions is not an array

Hello, I was testing with forms in applications in xcode, I created a button to import a file and a simple label where the name of the file was displayed. This tested in a simulator works perfectly, but when I send it to TestFlight and download it to my iPad, it opens the documentPicker but when I choose a file it does not load anything. No errors shown, no permissions issues. What could it be?

I am developing a cloud-based application and have integrated the FileProviderExtension. However, files larger than 20 MB are not downloading as it’s throwing a memory limit exception. In this process, I have downloaded the file data, but after downloading the data, I need to decrypt the data. I am getting a memory limit exception during decryption. I am using the below lines to decrypt the data. let symmetricKey = SymmetricKey(data: key) let sealedBox = try AES.GCM.SealedBox(combined: inputData) let decryptedData = try AES.GCM.open(sealedBox, using: symmetricKey) I am getting memory limit exception at AES.GCM.open(sealedBox, using: symmetricKey)

I was successfully able to get the callback for file reads for the files in my mounted folder. Now we need to implement some read protection on top of that, we need to only allow some specific applications to access the data through the File provider. for that, we need to get the name or any information regarding the Application that requested the read. one thing I've seen is the request.requestingExecutable , which is coming nil for all the applications trying to read the files in the mounted folder. But i do get applications name for the things done by finder (drag&drop and Copy paste) . What are the ways I can get the reading Application names ? and what could be done for implementing data leak features working in pair with the File Provider Extension ?

I am developing a cloud-based application and have integrated the FileProviderExtension. However, files larger than 20 MB are not downloading as it’s throwing a memory limit exception. In this process I have downloaded the file data but after downloaded data need to decompression the data . I am getting memory limit exception during decompression. I am using below file to decompress the data. let decompressedData = try? decryptedChunkBytes?.gunzipped() Data+Gzip.swift

I'm working on a Replicated File Provider extension for macOS. I've come across an issue recently on macOS 13+. It seems that the displayName of the domain changes when I call addDomain multiple times with the same NSFileProviderDomainIdentifier but with different displayName parameters. This behavior seems correct so far. However, the displayName, and of course the actual path under CloudStorage, revert back to their original values when I call disconnect to a domain manager. Here's the code snippet of getting existing doamin and disconnecting it: NSFileProviderManager.getDomainsWithCompletionHandler() { domainList, error in defer { dispatchGroup.leave() } for domain in domainList { if domain.identifier == NSFileProviderDomainIdentifier(rawValue: String(sessionId)){ domainResult = domain break } } } dispatchGroup.wait() guard let manager = NSFileProviderManager(for: domainResult) else { return -1 } manager.disconnect(reason: disconnectReason, options: []) { error in defer { dispatchGroup.leave() } errorResult = error } dispatchGroup.wait() Could a member of the internal team please help confirm if this is the correct method for updating the displayName of an existing domain? Additionally, is there a way to ensure that the new displayName persists even after disconnecting it? It would be great to allow users to customize and set a meaningful name for it. Thanks. Min

Hello, I want to fetch all local music files from an iPhone device. I tried MPMediaQuery but I can get only that file which is in the document folder.If we use UIDocumentpicker we can fetch all files from the iPhone (downloads, File Application)after selection by the user. I want to fetch all music files like UIDocumentpicker but without user interaction. Thanks in Advance for your guidance.

My computer crashed recently, and afterwards a lot of my files wouldn't open and it said it was because of "nsfileprovidererrordomain error -2005." I tried looking up what to do but nothing online really made sense and it was not offering me a solution to the problem. What should I do?

Hello, We have an iOS app which stores PDF files locally and allows them to be opened in place for editing by third-party apps (e.g. PDF Viewer / Xodo). We have found that the technique we were using to do this is not working as expected in iOS 17, where it does in all previous iOS versions. As per the File Provider documentation,: we are storing files locally, so presume we do not need to have a File Provider extension we set to true/YES both UIFileSharingEnabled and LSSupportsOpeningDocumentsInPlace we generate an NSUrl and, via UIDocumentInteractionController presentOpenInMenu, allow the user to open the PDF in an external app On iOS 16 and lower, it works as expected; the third-party app is able to read and automatically save changes to the PDF directly in our app's folder path. For example, the Xodo logs indicate that it's opening directly from our app's path (788C7161-32EB-4AF0-964D-2A473257A791 is our application's ID): Xodo initialized document instance: <PTCoordinatedDocument: 0x282453a00> fileURL: file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/788C7161-32EB-4AF0-964D-2A473257A791/Documents/7cafe7e7-9da9-40cd-b233-a85b0174fe00/624cbc1e-a7c5-4c0d-8937-b0a00013b2a9.pdf Xodo opening document: <PTCoordinatedDocument: 0x282453a00> fileURL: file:///private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/788C7161-32EB-4AF0-964D-2A473257A791/Documents/7cafe7e7-9da9-40cd-b233-a85b0174fe00/624cbc1e-a7c5-4c0d-8937-b0a00013b2a9.pdf On iOS 17, this no longer works correctly, and although the third-party PDF editor can read our PDF, it's quite clear that it's actually using a copy. If not quite identical to what happens when LSSupportsOpeningDocumentsInPlace is false/NO, the end result is very similar (6830EDC5-F776-4BEF-8C30-046BCA1F2DF0 is Xodo's application ID): Xodo initialized document instance: <PTCoordinatedDocument: 0x2828aae00> fileURL: file:///var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/6830EDC5-F776-4BEF-8C30-046BCA1F2DF0/Documents/Processed%20Files/624cbc1e-a7c5-4c0d-8937-b0a00013b2a9.pdf Xodo opening document: <PTCoordinatedDocument: 0x2828aae00> fileURL: file:///var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/6830EDC5-F776-4BEF-8C30-046BCA1F2DF0/Documents/Processed%20Files/624cbc1e-a7c5-4c0d-8937-b0a00013b2a9.pdf The third-party app will immediately prompt the user to save the file, but regardless, the copy is now beyond the purview of our app so we can no longer see any changes made to it. The only workaround is to have the user explicitly share the file from the third-party app back to our app (we have the code in place to handle this), but much preferred the seamless "open-in-place" integration which did not require this. There have been vague allusions to changes in the file system in iOS 17, but we have not been able to find primary sources or much specific detail. For example: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/733642 https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/737971 Are there specific changes in iOS 17 that invalidate our strategy? Are there any other things we may be missing that are needed to make this work? Note, for further reference, this issue is described in Xamarin terms here.. Although, yes, we are Xamarin developers so do not have native code to show, we (and, based on the comments, the Xamarin devs) suspect that this is most likely due to a change in iOS rather than in Xamarin.

I'm getting the following error message on on iOS 17.1 and Xcode 15.0.1 The view service did terminate with error: Error Domain=_UIViewServiceErrorDomain Code=1 "(null)" UserInfo={Terminated=disconnect method} In my info.plist I have given access to all file related permissions to rule out any issues Supports opening documents in place -> YES #if os(iOS) .fileImporter(isPresented: $isiOSFilePickerShown, allowedContentTypes: [.item], allowsMultipleSelection: false, onCompletion: { result in do{ guard let selectedURL: URL = try result.get().first else { return } guard selectedURL.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource() else { return } //Some operation with selectedURL } catch let e{ print("error reading file \(e)") } }) #endif