where does the standalonebuilder saves the substacks in an Mac OS App?

[Bob Sneidar]

To my understanding, it's a requirement in accordance with Apple's sandboxing policies, if you want an executable to be able to make changes to files inside the executable bundle. The way it's supposed to work, no application is allowed to write or modify anything in the old location where the actual application binary resides, but in the new location they can. 

As an administrative user I am able to copy files to both locations, but sandboxing is not about folder permissions. It's about executable permissions and it's baked into the OS so no one can (ostensibly) change it. 

That is my understanding at least. I've not dug in enough to know for certain. 

Bob S


> On Mar 27, 2017, at 09:45 , Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> "Apple requires" - Is this only a "best practise" guideline or what will happen if you don't care? I have an old application just migrated to LC 8, where I am running an independent stack file in that old dir("Contents/MacOS"), and it is running fine on MacOS 10.12.3
> Is there any Apple link about that or are there any informations, into which issue you can run, if you put files into the old dir? If you integrate Valentina, they also keep one file in that directory.
> Thanks for any info
> Tiemo