I'm looking into rewriting our non-replicated FP as a replicated FP, and I'm running into this as well. I'd like to show some UI that includes information from the database we keep about items, and if I had the NSFileProviderItemIdentifier we give to iOS, I could use that to look up the info. I'm confused by what you're trying to do here. Your file provider is the fundamental source of truth the system relies on. I can certainly see cases where you have user-relevant data that the system doesn't have— for example, displaying metadata the system doesn't use/support or showing the contents of directories the user has configured to NO sync. What I don't understand is how this flows in the other direction. The system’s view of your data should either always match yours or diverge in ways your provider understands and controls (for example, because you’re uploading/downloading data). What am I missing here? __ Kevin Elliott DTS Engineer, CoreOS/Hardware
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App & System Services
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Core OS
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