Closed pkamb closed 4 years ago
v2020.5 was approved by App Store Review today after I added some changes for the above items.
The most noticeable change is that it's now possible to disable the Service Station Attendant
background process via Menu Bar > System Setup > Service Station Attendant
. The background process will then only run when the main app is running.
Service Station won't really work if this background process is disabled, so the app prompts on startup and when quitting that you should enable the Attendant. Once it has been enabled it will stay enabled with no prompts, but this allows the process to be "off by default" for App Review.
Please let me know if you see any issues related to this change.
I've submitted v2020.5, which adds support for Mounted Volumes and Network Drive locations: #2
Unfortunately, App Review has decided to flag this update for some items that already exist in the Mac App Store app and that have now been through 5 previous App Review sessions.
I'll need to change these and/or appeal prior to shipping the 2020.5 update.
Two issues at play here:
I've already changed the Mac App Store screenshots to show the Home folder rather than
/Volumes
orApple SSD
root directory. This is, I believe, the reference to "marketing materials or release notes".The Finder Locations Open Panel currently defaults to
/Volumes
. They may want me to change that to the Home directory instead.That would not be a great change, as it makes it less likely that the user will be able to use Service Station wherever they right click. It also would make it harder to add Mounted Volumes or Network Drive locations.
The
Service Station Attendant
background process is needed for Service Station to function when you click on a Finder Extension menu item. This is in line with the Finder Sync docs:So any setting that turns off the background process while the Finder Extension is enabled is major point of frustration for users. They'll click the menu item and nothing will happen.
If I make a change here, I'll need to design a setting that the vast majority of users will turn on and leave on during their first run of the app, if they are using the Finder Extension.
Ideally the background process would be running only when either the main app or the Finder Extension are also running. However I'm not sure the Finder Sync Extension capabilities will let me exactly model that scenario.
I've written an appeal to hopefully get my usage of a background process whitelisted by App Review, given the Finder Sync docs.
If anyone has an idea here to make sure the background process is running, let me know.
The "+" button currently shows the IAP screen if you're clicking it to add a Rule above the free version Rule limit.
I guess I will change the button text or grey out the button to make that more clear.