Re: Changing file & directory names

• Subject: Re: Changing file & directory names
• From: "Adam R. Maxwell" <email@hidden>
• Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 09:41:04 -0700
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On Jul 4, 2006, at 09:07, Sean McBride wrote:

On 2006-07-01 21:21, Sherm Pendley said:

That was essentially my assumption, yes - I'd assumed that the docs
were in some way correct, but written very badly, in a way that's
easy to misinterpret. It hadn't occurred to me that they might be
flat-out wrong - and I apologize to John Stiles for doubting him when
he pointed out that they are.

I think with all this discussion of hardlinks and link and unlink, we
have overlooked the simple fact that Cocoa lacks an API to rename
files! Yes, yes, movePath:toPath:handler: can be used, but if you look
at its docs (which we've been over carefully now) you'll see the word
'rename' appears nowhere. And if one is not familiar with the (bizarre)
unix concept of 'moving' a file to rename it, then it's not at all clear
that this API can be used. And if you search the Cocoa docs and even
the Cocoa headers for 'rename' you come up pretty dry. This is quite
discouraging.

The CoreServices File Manager, on the other hand, has a very
straightforward API: FSRenameUnicode().

-- Adam

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