macOS How do I Change the File System in XCode

Here is the applicable standard. Not sure exactly what they are complaining about. There's no specific mention that applications should not write to this directory, though there's some implication that perhaps this is to be used only for files that are put there at installation time.

http://developer.apple.com/library/...al/BPFileSystem/Articles/WhereToPutFiles.html

Perhaps you've run afoul of the naming convention. If your application is not called "Law Documents", then that's likely the problem. Also, if you plan on coming out with additional applications, you probably should use your company name in the path. Something like:

~/Library/Application Support/My Company/My App/Law Documents

If these are files that your user creates, they almost certainly belong instead in:

~/Documents/My Company/My App/ or perhaps
~/Documents/My Company/My App/Law Documents

(The latter if your app creates some OTHER kind of documents as well).

As to the XCode 4 "how" (and the question you posed is really a meaningless question. There's no way to do this "in XCode 4". "In Objective-C", or "in C++", or "in Perl" makes sense... Xcode is just a project management and code editing tool...) how did you write them where you are writing them in the first place?

What Apple is saying is "write them somewhere else, not here!"

jtara said:

If these are files that your user creates, they almost certainly belong instead in:

~/Documents/My Company/My App/ or perhaps
~/Documents/My Company/My App/Law Documents

(The latter if your app creates some OTHER kind of documents as well).

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But I disagree with putting the documents in ~/Documents/My Company/My App. The only place they should be put is were is the user chooses to put them via the Save As panel. Programs should not pollute a user's ~/Documents, or from the other side, a user should be in complete control over ~/Documents.

If you don't want to allow your users to save their files where they choose, then don't store them in ~/Documents.

forcesteeler said:

My Question was how to correct the problem.

Do i just rename the Project file?

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Unlikely.

Is LwaDocuments a file or folder? Can you post the relevant code that creates it?

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