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Re: How to get non-resolved FSRef from POSIX path

You'll have to jump through some hoops. Essentially you have to get an FSRef to the parent folder, and then build your FSRef based on that. Below is a category on NSString I wrote for this purpose:

//
// NSStringPathFSRefUtilities.m
// Filie
//
// Created by Uli Kusterer on Tue Dec 16 2003.
// Copyright (c) 2003 M. Uli Kusterer. All rights reserved.
//

#import "NSStringPathFSRefUtilities.h"


@implementation NSString (NSStringPathFSRefUtilities)

// Thanks to Lorenzo Puleo for a working version of this idea:

-(BOOL) getFSRef: (FSRef*)outRef
{
OSStatus err;
BOOL isSymLink;
NSFileManager* manager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];

NSDictionary *sourceAttribute = [manager fileAttributesAtPath:self traverseLink:NO];
isSymLink = ([sourceAttribute objectForKey:@"NSFileType"] == NSFileTypeSymbolicLink);
if(isSymLink)
{
const char* sourceParentPath;
FSRef sourceParentRef;
HFSUniStr255 sourceFileName;
sourceParentPath = (UInt8*)[[self stringByDeletingLastPathComponent] fileSystemRepresentation];
err = FSPathMakeRef(sourceParentPath, &sourceParentRef, NULL);
if(err == noErr)
{
[[self lastPathComponent] getCharacters:sourceFileName.unicode];
sourceFileName.length = [[self lastPathComponent] length];
if (sourceFileName.length == 0)
{
err = fnfErr;
}
else
err = FSMakeFSRefUnicode( &sourceParentRef,
sourceFileName.length, sourceFileName.unicode,
kTextEncodingFullName, outRef);
}
}
else
{
err = FSPathMakeRef([self fileSystemRepresentation], outRef, NULL);
}

return( err == noErr );
}

@end

--
Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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"The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..."
http://www.zathras.de
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References: 
 >How to get non-resolved FSRef from POSIX path (From: Calvin Chen <email@hidden>)
 >Re: How to get non-resolved FSRef from POSIX path (From: Brian Webster <email@hidden>)



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