Core Data and iTunes File Sharing - Move/hide the .sqlite file on app update?

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Published on 2010-12-29T02:30:40Z Indexed on 2010/12/29 4:54 UTC
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I have an iPad app that uses Core Data for data storage. I would like to enable file sharing in iTunes and I don't really want the users to be able to delete or modify the .sqlite file.

Can I move the file to a different, hidden directory?

Alternatively, could the file be made read-only? I wouldn't mind users having access to the file as long as it couldn't be changed.

I suspect there is a trivial solution that is escaping me at the moment.

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