BBEdit 12.6 and later: iCloud Support Folder Changes
Because of restrictions imposed by App Sandboxing, we had to make some changes in how BBEdit interacts with iCloud Drive when looking for support folder items. In particular, BBEdit is not able to look for, nor can it use, support folder items in your top-level iCloud Drive folder.
If you were previously using iCloud Drive/Application Support/BBEdit
for support folder items, please follow these instructions:
Look in your iCloud Drive folder. If there is a folder named "BBEdit" there which has the BBEdit application icon imprinted on it, skip to step 5.
Start BBEdit. If necessary, allow sandbox access.
Quit the application.
You should see a new "BBEdit" folder in your iCloud Drive.
Open the "BBEdit" folder in your iCloud Drive, and use the Finder's "New Folder" command to create a new folder inside of it. Name the new folder "Application Support".
Open up iCloud Drive/Application Support/BBEdit/, and copy its contents into the new folder you've just created.
So to summarize, what you're doing is moving the contents of
iCloud Drive/Application Support/BBEdit/ into iCloud Drive/BBEdit/Application Support/.
The next time you start BBEdit, it will use your support folder contents from the new location.
If you have not been using iCloud Drive for your BBEdit support folder items, we recommend that you consider an alternative such as Dropbox. This is because of some intentional idiosyncrasies in how macOS handles items in application-specific iCloud Drive folders.
However, if you simply must use iCloud Drive:
Look in your iCloud Drive folder. If there is a folder named "BBEdit" there which has the BBEdit application icon imprinted on it, skip to step 5.
Start BBEdit. If necessary, allow sandbox access.
Quit the application.
You should see a new "BBEdit" folder in your iCloud Drive.
Open the "BBEdit" folder in your iCloud Drive, and use the Finder's "New Folder" command to create a new folder inside of it. Name the new folder "Application Support".
Make a new window in the Finder, and then use the Finder's "Go to Folder" command and enter "
~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/" in the panel that appears.Copy the contents of this folder into the Application Support folder that you created in step 5.
The next time you start BBEdit, it will use your support folder contents from the new location.
