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Re: Searching for Specific Files/Problem with hiding on login

Launch Services is a much better way to do this, for applications at least. The system keeps track of applications for you, why reinvent the wheel? Search for it in the archives (cocoa.mamasam.com) or look at LaunchServices.h. In particular LSFindApplication.

Searching for a particular file needs something more, but you should generally be popping up an open dialog box if it isn't in a known place.

Also you may want to look at CFBundleVersion (as appears in Info.plist files), if you want the exact version of an application. There's probably a high-level API for this but it escapes me right now.

Regards,

Tom

On Friday, July 18, 2003, at 07:48 pm, Thomas Harrington wrote:

On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 08:44 PM, Simone Manganelli wrote:

First, I'm wondering what the best way is to search (a) user's hard drive(s) for a specific application or file. For example, what if I wanted to find out where a user placed the application "OmniWeb" on his hard drive. And, coming off of that question, how would I identify if the user doesn't have the required app/file? Would I refer to the file by the get info string, the exact size, or what? (Obviously I have no experience in this area, so I'm shooting in the dark.)

How about:

NSDirectoryEnumerator *dirEnum = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] enumeratorAtPath:@"/"];

Depending on the situation, it might be best to run this in a separate thread.

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Tom Harrington
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