This is my first thread and you haven't made the official Apple forum very appealing to me. Second point - to 'Steve', you have an incredibly rude and sharp tone in this forum. And being able to view my files on my computer that I have purchased. A computer with a 1GHz processor, internal storage and RAM, a multi-input device, display, multiple network connections, (and a sim-free price tag of £500) - this isĭefinitely a computer. For now, apps bought through the Apple Mac App Store are limited.Thank you to everyone for your responses, and it's reassuring to see that some other people also would like this functionality.Ī couple of points - firstly to 'TechFrenzy', I would just like to correct you with your point 'the iPhone is not a computer'. Customer feedback will help shape what Mac App Store apps can and can not do in the future. However, the sandboxed version needs to ask you for permission for certain operations, and if you find this annoying, you should get the non-App Store version.) Tell AppleĬonsider providing feedback to Apple about this limitation and how it limits your workflow. If you prefer the safety of the OS X sandbox, you should get the App Store version. (Note that the App Store version is sandboxed, while the non-App Store trial and full versions are not sandboxed. Xee's developers do appear to be aware of the issue: Ask Xee's developers for help on how to work around this behaviour only they have the appropriate knowledge to solve this problem. Modifying a Mac application is not recommended. To remove the entitlements, you need to re- code sign the application without entitlements - using codesign - or entirely strip the code signing from the application. Ole Begemann's article, Checking Code Signing and Sandboxing Status in Code, explains more. You can view Xee's sandbox entitlements using the following Terminal.app command: codesign -display -entitlements - /Applications/Xee.app

Apple's developer documentation on sandboxing provides more detail. These entitlements are being enforced by Mac OS X. This means the application has been code signed with a set of entitlements.

Apple sandbox system files