PSA: FileManager.trashItem (Maybe) Uses NSFileCoordinator Under the Hood Automatically, So You Shouldn't to Prevent Deadlocks

Users of The Archive and Dropbox have reported issues with deleting files in their Dropbox-managed folders in the past weeks: the app would beachball forever. Apparently, Dropbox’s recent migration from ~/Dropbox to ~/Library/CloudStorage affects this. I had the occasional Google Drive user in the past months report similar issues but couldn’t make much sense of it – until now.

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