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Re:Show HN: RetroClip – Instant Replay for Your Mac by freewizard on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @01:53PM (#16225274)
Nice work!

I'm impressed by the CPU footprint. Shouldn't be a surprise as it's all hardware now but still great to see this which makes me comfortable let it running along.

Is there a way to change store path?

Also I changed hot key twice and seems both keys are in effect now.

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Re:Show HN: RetroClip – Instant Replay for Your Mac by TheTon on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @02:05PM (#16225371)
RE: Store Path. Unfortunately, no. In order to write outside of the app sandbox container, an entitlement has to be approved by Apple, and they only would only approve ~/Movies/<AppName>/.

RE: Two Hot Keys. Ruh-Roh. Thanks for the bug report. I'll investigate. EDIT: Will be fixed in next update. :) As a quick workaround, just quit and relaunch RetroClip and the old hotkey will be unbound, leaving just your new one active.

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Re:Show HN: RetroClip – Instant Replay for Your Mac by glhaynes on Thursday January 25, 2018 @06:11PM (#16235625)
Can you not use Powerbox to allow the app to write to user-chosen folders outside of the app sandbox container? Or maybe that's the entitlement you mean and Apple wouldn't grant it? Anyway, cool app. Nice work and nice writeup!

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Se...

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Re:Show HN: RetroClip – Instant Replay for Your Mac by TheTon on Thursday January 25, 2018 @07:21PM (#16236050)
Yeah, I guess I could use a security scoped bookmark. Might be worth adding.
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Re:Show HN: RetroClip – Instant Replay for Your Mac by miles on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @11:18PM (#16228724)
> RE: Store Path. Unfortunately, no. In order to write outside of the app sandbox container, an entitlement has to be approved by Apple, and they only would only approve ~/Movies/<AppName>/.

In that case, a symlink would work nicely: https://tinyapps.org/blog/mac/200805230700_change_imovie_sav...

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Re:Show HN: RetroClip – Instant Replay for Your Mac by oneeyedpigeon on Thursday January 25, 2018 @03:47AM (#16229640)
Did you consider making it available to a wider audience outside the app store, or do the economics just not work out? Curious to have an up-to-date analysis.
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Re:Show HN: RetroClip – Instant Replay for Your Mac by TheTon on Thursday January 25, 2018 @07:23PM (#16236060)
I mean, everyone has the Mac App Store at this point, right? I think the drawbacks of the Mac App Store are obviously numerous and well documented around the web, but I'm not sure that lack of ubiquity is one of them.
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