I have a simple Swift-based macOS app that creates and executes an Apple Script:let unreadEmailsScript = """ tell application "Mail" get unread count of inbox end tell """ if let scriptObject = NSAppleScript(source: unreadEmailsScript) { var errorDict: NSDictionary? = nil scriptObject.executeAndReturnError(&errorDict) if let error = errorDict { print(error) } }I've added the following to my project's entitlements:<key>com.apple.security.temporary-exception.apple-events</key> <array> <string>com.apple.Mail</string></array>When I execute this on the latest version (18A389) of Mojave the code prints:{ NSAppleScriptErrorAppName = Mail; NSAppleScriptErrorBriefMessage = "Not authorized to send Apple events to Mail."; NSAppleScriptErrorMessage = "Not authorized to send Apple events to Mail."; NSAppleScriptErrorNumber = "-1743"; NSAppleScriptErrorRange = "NSRange: {33, 12}"; }The system doesn't prompt me for authorization at app launch.What is the correct way to send Apple Events to Mail via a Swift app under Mojave?TIA

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I'm working with Apple's sample code for PhotoBrowse. In the main view controller's viewDidLoad() method we have this code: let allPhotosOptions = PHFetchOptions() allPhotosOptions.sortDescriptors = [NSSortDescriptor(key: "creationDate", ascending: true)] This code sorts the photos by "creationDate". How do I determine/find the other valid values for these sort descriptors? For example, what if I wanted to sort photos by their file size, last modified date, etc.? TIA!

It is 2023 and Photos.app still provides no way to sort photos/movies by file size. I ended up writing some AppleScript that displays the file sizes of images/movies in a specific album. It is also simple to create a shell script to examine the photo library contents directly but mapping the UUID-based filenames back to the names used in Photos.app is not straightforward (to me at least). You can't even create a smart album based upon file size. Why is there no native support for this in Photos.app/PhotoKit? (And, yes, I have submitted many feature requests over the years)

I wrote a Python script that iterates over all the "Junk.mbox" folders in my account (/Users/Bob/Library/Mail). My account, Bob, is an admin account. Even if I run my script with sudo, the script fails with a permissions error. I manually checked ALL of the folders (recursively) in /Users/Library/Bob/Mail and they all have read/write access for my account. I wondered if it was SIP related so I disabled it. And, yes, I can access that folder programmatically with SIP disabled. So I re-enabled SIP and simply copied the contents of /Users/Bob/Library/Mail to ~/tmp. Now my Python script runs without issue when pointing to that folder. Please tell me that I don't have to disable SIP or copy gigabytes worth of data to another location just to access my own email data. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!