Our application AristoVaULT(Mac OS X App) is a storage domain software where user can take backup(files/folders) of their mac/windows machines and restore it onto the same or different mac/window machine.For backup our software need to present the whole file system(On Current OS) to the user as NSOutlineview from which they can select the desired files/folder.After selecting the desired file/folder they can take backup of those files/folders.Due to Sandboxing our application is restricted to limited a limited set of files and folders and is not able to present the whole file system(On Current OS) to the user.This breaks the uniformity of the UI as our application is cross platform application and user has the same functionality on windows platform.Please suggest a solution for this.
Files/Folders Access Restriction Due to Sandboxing(Mac OS X App).
There's really only two ways forward here:
Distribute outside of the Mac App Store, either without sandboxing or with temporary entitlements that wouldn't be allowed on the store.
Ask the user to select the 'root' of their backup via the open panel, at which point you have, and can maintain, via security scope bookmarks, access to that entire hierarchy.
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