NSSavePanel, CGImageDestinationFinalize and OS X sandbox

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I'm using NSSavePanel to let user select image to save to in my app. Everything worked fine until I enabled app sandboxing and entitlements. The problem occurs with selection of an already existing file. My code is like this:

// Create a URL to our file destination and a CGImageDestination to save to. CGImageDestinationRef imageDestination = CGImageDestinationCreateWithURL((CFURLRef)[savePanel URL], (CFStringRef)newUTType, 1, NULL); CGImageDestinationAddImage(imageDestination, cgimage, (CFDictionaryRef)metaData); const bool result = CGImageDestinationFinalize(imageDestination);

It works when selecting new file to save the image, but when I select existing file it creates strange named file besides existing file and fails to overwrite the contents of destination url. And even worse, I get no error in return and cannot detect the failure. Is this a bug in CoreGraphics or in my code? Is there any workaround for this issue?

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I get the same results for apple provided example MassiveImage developer.apple.com/library/mac/#samplecode/MassiveImage/…) if enable app sandboxing and entitlements. The only entitlement I use is com.apple.security.files.user-selected.read-write. Also I know that somehow overwriting existing file is possible in sandboxed app (standard app 'Preview' is sandboxed and overwrites existing images just fine). – Alexander B

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Finally I have discovered combination of core graphics calls to overwrite an already existing image working in sandboxed environment: CGDataConsumerCreateWithURL followed by CGImageDestinationCreateWithDataConsumer. So it seems CGImageDestinationCreateWithURL is broken (at least in OS X Lion 10.7.1) with sandbox enabled.