This update extends the Sandbox Manager with additional invalid bookmark handling, allowing users to remove inaccessible bookmarks to mitigate slow startup speed issues.

Specifically, it will allow Sandbox Manager to show unresolvable bookmarks in red colour as ‘invalid’. This in turn also means that the Smart Cleanup button will also remove these unresolvable bookmarks.

These unresolvable bookmarks are typically paths that belong to External Storage Devices or Network Shares on your NAS that you currently don’t have access to (eg.: when away from home) – the main difference under the hood, is that the resolution of these bookmarks fail with a timeout set by macOS as opposed to simply being ‘inaccessible’.

Sandboxing differentiates between paths existing but not being allowed to access (inaccessible) and not existing – and now Sandbox Manager also shows these entries as invalid. Removing these entries should restore the startup speed of Colibri – as all saved Sandbox bookmarks have to be resolved when Colibri is started, having many of these inaccessible bookmarks will cause Colibri to be halted until the system process finally timeouts during trying to resolve the file/folder paths contained within the invalid bookmark, multiplied by the amount of said bookmarks…

It is far from convenient – but Colibri is a Mac App Store app and has to adhere to the rules imposed by the ecosystem, Sandbox support being one of them.

Happy listening!