File Provider

These pages use the taxonomy term "File Provider".

How to Automatically Connect Debugger to Extension and App

February 28, 2023 • 3 minute read

There is a convenient way to automatically connect the debugger in Xcode to a file provider extension and its host app process on run.

Restore Clean NSFileProviderReplicatedExtension Environment

November 9, 2022 • 4 minute read

While developing and porting macOS file provider extensions based on NSFileProviderReplicatedExtension I sometimes ended up in a messed up state of my environment. I found these steps to restore a clean environment again.

A macOS App with a File Provider Extension

January 30, 2022 • 6 minute read

To me it was not obvious on how to get started with the file provider API on macOS. I want to share how I successfully set up an Xcode project for development.