cfBookmarkMBS - failing on new mac

[James_Pitchford]

My app has been using cfBookmarkMBS routines to access files quite successfully, up until now:

1. I transferred over to a new powerbook pro (M1 Pro), using Migration tool.
2. MacOS is upgraded to Monterey.

Now none of the bookmarks resolve to a file using CFBookmarkMBS.ResolveBookmarkData

Any ideas how to resolve?

[DerkJ]

CFBookmark Problems - again

Well, we have ResolveBookmarkDataToCFURLMBS in CFBookmarkMBS module. There you get a CFURLMBS object. That module also has StartAccessingSecurityScopedResource method to start the access. Key thing is to keep the CFURLMBS around as security scope is linked to it.

Again?

[Christian_Schmitz]

make sure you provide the proper relative URL, e.g. home folder.

Since you migrated all the file/folder IDs are changed, so only relative or absolute path may help to find the files.
Otherwise you recreate those bookmarks.

[James_Pitchford]

Yes, that’s what I’m using but it seems that in transferring the files to a new laptop the bookmark references seem to break.

I’ve kept a reference to the file URL am currently using an openFileDialog to re-open the files and re-create a new bookmark. A bit ugly for the user.

[James_Pitchford]

Thanks Christian - yes, that seems to be the problem - so re-creation from the URL seems to only way.