Hello Kevin, hello All I have tested your suggestions. Sadly to no avail. The location of the files is not crucial nor using a signed version of the app. I have also setup a new project on my macOS14 Mac with the same result. So it is not a macOS26 problem neither. That makes me wonder more and more. My AppStore app (bcAnalyze) that does use the related file feature with these files works well on any macOS with these files. The code I am using is older dating back ca. 10 years (originated in Obj-C days and is now Swift since ca. 4 years). The idea of adding a security scoped bookmark to the sidecar file is tempting, but wouldn't help since the original application producing the the sidecar file is more than 10 years old and users may have already millions of file pairs. There shouldn't be a difference between SwiftUi and AppKit as front-end, but I may also try this in the next days. Since my AppStore app works, I must oversee something little that has this big effect. I can't otherwise explain the ne
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App & System Services
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Core OS
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