I have a Core Data based mac application that is working perfectly well until I save a file. When I save a file it seems like something changes in core data because my original fetch request no longer fetches anything. This is the fetch request that works before saving but returns an empty array after saving.

NSEntityDescription *outputCellEntityDescription = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"OutputCell" 
                                                                   inManagedObjectContext:[[self document] managedObjectContext]];
NSFetchRequest *outputCellRequest = [[[NSFetchRequest alloc] init] autorelease];
[outputCellRequest setEntity:outputCellEntityDescription];
NSPredicate *outputCellPredicate = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"(cellTitle = %@)", outputCellTitle];
[outputCellRequest setPredicate:outputCellPredicate];
NSError *outputCellError = nil;
NSArray *outputCellArray = [[[self document] managedObjectContext] executeFetchRequest:outputCellRequest 
                                                                                 error:&outputCellError];

I have checked with [[[self document] managedObjectContext] registeredObjects] to see that the object still exists after the save and nothing seems to have changed and the object still exists. It is probably something fairly basic but does anyone know what I might be doing wrong? If not can anyone give me any pointers to what might be different in the Core Data model after a save so I might have some clues why the fetch request stops working after saving?