how to make a finder sync extension load automatically?

Question

i create a cocoa application project, and add target "Finder sync extension". Then the "finderSync.appex" will be put to ".../Contens/Plugins/" folder. But when i launch the application, the extension is not loaded automatically, should i load it manually ? How can i load it ?

From the Apple developement guide, it says:

For OS X to recognize and automatically load the Finder Sync extension, the extension target’s info.plist file must contain the following entries:

<key>NSExtension</key>
<dict>
    <key>NSExtensionAttributes</key>
    <dict/>
    <key>NSExtensionPointIdentifier</key>
    <string>com.apple.FinderSync</string>
    <key>NSExtensionPrincipalClass</key>
    <string>$(PRODUCT_MODULE_NAME).FinderSync</string>
</dict>

I already set as the above, but it doens't work.

Hi, I am facing the same issue. Could you resolve this. On adding $PRODUCT_MODULE_NAME the app crashes. Manually it can be done in this fashion, but i am not sure if this is how it is supposed to be done. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31176942/how-to-enable-findersync-extension-in-the-system-preference-in-cocoa-objective — Sandeep T D S, Jun 13 '17 at 04:31

Liviu · Answer 1 · 2018-02-23T10:45:53.883

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You need to register your extension with Finder:

pluginkit -a <path you your appex>

You might also need to tell Finder to enable your extension:

pluginkit -e use -i <ID of you appex>

edited Feb 23 '18 at 10:45

answered Nov 24 '17 at 20:48

Liviu

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Looks like that should be a lowercase "I": "pluginkit -e use -i " (possibly you were hacked by auto-correct, as I was just now). – rsfinn Feb 19 '18 at 18:21
@rsfinn Thank you – Liviu Feb 23 '18 at 10:46

how to make a finder sync extension load automatically?

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