The files, both user-selected and sidecar, reside in a folder inside my user’s document folder, and I try to read the sidecar when the user opens the audio file. OK. SO, one thing I would test here is what happens if you test the same code with files that are in a directory outside of the normal user hierarchy. You can try with a directory inside your home directory, but I actually suggest using a folder ENTIRELY outside the user hierarchy— for example, on a disk image or an external volume. The issue here is that macOS has multiple independent systems of data protection, most of which are focused on user data (like the contents of ~/Documents/). Moving outside of that hierarchy means you’re looking at the basic case, which is easier to evaluate. Looking at the other cases here: I can access the sidecar file from the terminal and load its content. FYI, Terminal.app is a tricky tool to test an experiment with. The issues here are: It's not sandboxed, which exempts it from the more aggressive file prot
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App & System Services
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Core OS
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