I made a music app for macOS that need the access of the file on disk. I can get the proper url, but I can't access the file. To figure out that problem, here I create a concise code snippet to concentrate on the question itself.
.onAppear {
var url = FileManager.default.homeDirectoryForCurrentUser
url.appendPathComponent("Downloads/Test.txt")
var text: String = ""
do {
text = try String(contentsOf: url)
} catch {
print("ERROR: \(error.localizedDescription)")
}
}
The output would be like this
ERROR: The file “Test.txt” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it.. So I noticed App Sandbox in Targets > Signing & Capabilities. But at the list of file access (as you can see in the following picture), there's only User Selected File, Downloads Folder, Pictures Folder, Music Folder and Movie Folder. So I come up with 3 questions:
What that User Selected File means? Is that means that the user can select some specific file for my app to access? If it is, how can user selects them?
How can I get access to other folders like Desktop Folder if I remain the App Sandbox capability here?
I also noticed the trash icon on right-upper corner. If I delete App Sandbox, I can access every folder I want with the user's agreement by a default system pop-up. But what the deletion of App Sandbox means? Does it make my app "untrusted" somehow when user install it or others? Does it cause any security problems?
And It couldn't be better if you can tell me the conventions major developers follow when meet this problem. I would highly appreciate your help.
I am using the following code in the AppDel. This is triggered when a user taps on a gpx file or uses the share option to share the file with my app. At this point it is the user that specified that they are allowing my app to access the file so I'm a little confused a to why this is still being denied. Any advice much appreciated.
func application(_ app: UIApplication, open url: URL, options: [UIApplication.OpenURLOptionsKey : Any]) -> Bool {
if let dir = FileManager.default.urls(for: .documentDirectory, in: .userDomainMask).first {
let fileURL = dir.appendingPathComponent(url.lastPathComponent)
if FileManager.default.fileExists(atPath: fileURL.path) {
print("File already exists")
}
else {
do {
try FileManager.default.copyItem(at: url, to: fileURL)
print("Did write file to disk")
}
catch {
DispatchQueue.main.async(){
print("Catch error writing file to disk: \(error)")
}
}
}
}
return true
}
The error prints to the console as follows:
Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=257 "The file
“Beech_Hill_Long_Route.gpx” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have
permission to view it."
UserInfo={NSFilePath=/private/var/mobile/Library/Mobile
Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Desktop/Beech_Hill_Long_Route.gpx,
NSUnderlyingError=0x282c19a70 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=1
"Operation not permitted"}}
I'm less knowledgeable about exactly how this works on iOS, but I do have some knowledge about how it works for macOS, and the two should be similar. For macOS sandboxed apps the user has to select the file outside of the sandbox specifically via NSOpenPanel or NSSavePanel. The equivalent on iOS would be UIDocumentPickerViewController, but I assume an explicit share would work too. Based on that, here's how I would think about it and what I would try, if I were faced with your problem:
You've got two URLs involved in your call to FileManager.default.copy(). It's not clear which one is producing the error, so I'll consider both.
First let's look at fileURL. You're constructing it to put a file in the user's Documents directory. On macOS at least, that directory is not in the app's sandbox, which means asking the user via NSSavePanel (which also means they might decide to put it somewhere else). You might have to do the UIKit equivalent, or just make sure you're picking a location that is in your sandbox.
To test that, instead of doing the copy, try writing to fileURL to isolate just that one. For example:
do { try "TestString".data(using: .utf8)?.write(url: fileURL) }
catch { print("Write failed: \(error.localizedDescription)") }
If that fails, then your problem is with fileURL, in which case you may need to use UIDocumentPickerViewController to save it, or pick a location that's definitely in the app's sandbox.
If the test succeeds, the problem must be with the incoming URL.
I'm going to assume that url is already security scoped, because I'm not sure how sharing would even work otherwise. What I think is most likely happening behind the scenes is that when the user shares a URL with your app, iOS creates a security-scoped bookmark from the URL and sends the bookmark rather than the URL to your app. Then on your app's end, that bookmark is used to reconstitute the URL before passing it on to your app's delegate. If I'm right about that you'll need to open and close a security scope to use it:
url.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource()
// access your file here
url.stopAccessingSecurityScopedResource()
Note that stopAccessingSecurityScopeResource() has to be called on the main thread, so if you're code is happening asynchronously you'll need to schedule it to run there:
url.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource()
// access your file here
DispatchQueue.main.async { url.stopAccessingSecurityScopedResource() }
If you need to save the URL itself to use in a future run of your program... you can't. Well, you can, but it won't be valid, so you'll be right back to permissions errors. Instead you have to save a bookmark, and then in that future run, reconstruct the URL from the bookmark.
let bookmark = try url.bookmarkData(
options: .withSecurityScope,
includingResourceValuesForKeys: nil,
relativeTo: nil
)
bookmark is an instance of Data, so you can write that to UserDefaults or wherever you might want to save it. To get a URL back from it later:
var isStale = false
let url = try URL(
resolvingBookmarkData: bookmark,
options: .withSecurityScope,
relativeTo: nil,
bookmarkDataIsStale: &isStale
)
if isStale
{
let newBookmark = try url.bookmarkData(
options: .withSecurityScope,
includingResourceValuesForKeys: nil,
relativeTo: nil
)
// Save the new bookmark
}
Note that if isStale is true after the initializer returns, then you need to remake and resave the bookmark.
It's a shame that we have to go through this much trouble, but we live in a world where some people insist on doing bad things to other people's devices and data, so it's what we have to deal with the protect users from malicious data breaches.
When I try to authenticate access to write to a user's mindful minutes store (health app) from the onboarding in my own app, the authentication page doesn't display (although I did have this working in previous versions of the app). The app however doesn't crash and there is only the following message in the debugger:
Error Domain=com.apple.healthkit Code=3 "Failed to look up source with bundle identifier "com.myorg.myapp"" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Failed to look up source with bundle identifier "com.myorg.myapp"}
The code I am using to request the authentication is as follows:
let typesToShare = Set([
HKObjectType.categoryType(forIdentifier: HKCategoryTypeIdentifier.mindfulSession)!
])
self.healthStore.requestAuthorization(toShare: typesToShare, read: nil) { (_, error) -> Void in
if let error = error {
print("\(error)")
}
DispatchQueue.main.async {
self.performSegue(withIdentifier: "openWalkthroughThree", sender: self)
}
}
I have searched around the internet but can't seem t find anyone with the same issue. I have also checked my entitlements for HealthKit as well as usage description but they both seem to be fine - as I said, I had this working in previous versions of my app.
I would be grateful for any help you could give me in finding a solution to this problem.
Not sure what's going on but simply restarting my device fixed this issue.
Also see: Missing HealthKit Entitlement
This is the code I use to retrieve picture in my code.
I call this function immediately after I send the graphRequest.
let upLoadData = try Data(contentsOf: URL(fileURLWithPath:
"https:/graph.facebook.com/(fbUID)/picture?type=large")) let
upLoadImage = UIImage(data: upLoadData)?.jpeg(.low)
However, this is the error I get
Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=260 "The file “picture?type=large” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file." UserInfo={NSFilePath=/https:/graph.facebook.com/(my facebook user id)/picture?type=large, NSUnderlyingError=0x604001451df0 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 "No such file or directory"}}
I checked to see if I can access this url and when I type in the url I successfully download the image.
Is there any step that I am missing?
The result was due to the fact that I used URL(fileURLWithPath: , not URL(string:
I coded for osx application to remove file from directory path but I had received error as "couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it". So I want to set access permission code to remove that list of files. If any one have idea or solution please help me. The code as pasted below for reference :
if fileManager.fileExists(atPath: fullpath) == true {
print("File Available \(fullpath)")
do {
_ = try fileManager.removeItem(atPath: fullpath)
} catch let error as NSError{
print(error.localizedDescription)
}
}
In above code, I had found the exist file in directory but I got error that "couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it".
I want to get solution of access permission and remove file from directory. Thanks in advance.
If you want your app to be able to access files outside your own app, you need to turn App Sandbox off in your app target's capabilities.