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Re: Changing file & directory names

Sherm Pendley wrote: 
On Jul 1, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Dean Snyder wrote:

Greg Titus wrote at 10:26 AM on Saturday, July 1, 2006:

[[NSFileManager defaultManager] movePath:src toPath:dest
handler:handler];

Hope this helps!

From Apple documentation for NSFileManager movePath: 

"If source is a file, the method creates a file at destination that
holds the exact contents of the original file and then deletes the
original file. If source is a directory, movePath:toPath:handler:
creates a new directory at destination and recursively populates it with
duplicates of the files and directories contained in source."

This is really heavyweight

No, it's not heavy at all - you've just misunderstood what it does. When the above says "creates a file at destination", it's talking about creating a new directory entry that points to the same data, not about copying the data.
I don't see any way that you could read this entry without interpreting it as "directories are copied element-by-element." There's no ambiguity at all.
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