oh the frustration…

the phrase “that couldn’t possibly happen” is a phrase that is going to live right up there with the question “did you try it on a clean machine?”

I have spent quite a few hours lately trying to figure out a not terribly obscure part of the UIDocument specification as it applies to exported UTIs and getting the finder and iTunes to recognize a file package as a package and not as a simple folder.

as it turns out, the documentation is likely written by people who probably answer yes to that question in the first paragraph…  that said, I would like to announce to anyone else who asks, that if you are trying to construct a UIDocument based application, and you seem to be having trouble getting your system to recognize that your carefully crafted package of document  parts should be recognized as a singular whole rather than a loose agglomeration of bits, it is probably that your system is old enough that it is looking through fuzzy glasses and getting confused. it is in need of a flea bath.  at the following link, there are some very coherent instructions on what to do about it.  oh the interconnectedness of things…

Latest Update says Ascension cant open files of type .nfo · Issue #6 · ByteProject/Ascension · GitHub.

I can’t tell you how well I’ll sleep now…

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