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Re: NSFileManager fun & games
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Re: NSFileManager fun & games


  • Subject: Re: NSFileManager fun & games
  • From: Jeremy Dronfield <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 10:54:49 +0000

On 1 Dec 2004, at 8:04 am, Charles Srstka wrote:

On Dec 1, 2004, at 12:29 AM, Duncan Campbell wrote:

I would like to only produce the list of files/folder you get when you click on the "Macintosh HD" icon on the desktop - i.e. beginning with "Applications", not showing any of the "." files/folders (hidden) etc.... - is there a method to produce this list?


Obviously I could just look for a "." as the 1st char of the filename, but it seems there would be a method that gives me what i am after, based on permissions etc?

I haven't tried it myself, but - [NSFileManager componentsToDisplayForPath:] looks like it might be what you need.

-[NSFileManager componentsToDisplayForPath:] produces an array of user-displayable path components for the path provided, not visible directory contents at the path. For example, doing


NSLog(@"%@", [[NSFileManager defaultManager] componentsToDisplayForPath:NSHomeDirectory()]);

produces an array like so:

0 : <CFString 0x3a0f70 [0xa01900e0]>{contents = "Macintosh HD"}
1 : <CFString 0x3a2130 [0xa01900e0]>{contents = "Users"}
2 : <CFString 0x3a2120 [0xa01900e0]>{contents = "myuseraccount"}

To the original poster: You can use the following method to check for file visibility. (It's designed for checking one path, so is not efficient for enumerating directories; you'll probably want to init and keep dotHiddens in an accessor somewhere rather than creating it for each call as here):

- (BOOL)isVisibleFileAtPath:(NSString *)path {
BOOL visible = YES;
if ([[path lastPathComponent] hasPrefix:@"."]) {
visible = NO;
} else {
// check if file is in .hidden
NSString *hiddenFile = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:@"/.hidden"];
NSArray *dotHiddens = [hiddenFile componentsSeparatedByString:@"\n"];
visible = ![dotHiddens containsObject:[path lastPathComponent]];

// use Carbon to check if file has kIsInvisible finder flag
FSRef possibleInvisibleFile;
FSCatalogInfo catalogInfo;
OSStatus errStat = FSPathMakeRef([path fileSystemRepresentation], &possibleInvisibleFile, nil);
FSGetCatalogInfo(&possibleInvisibleFile, kFSCatInfoFinderInfo, &catalogInfo, nil, nil, nil);
if (((FileInfo*)catalogInfo.finderInfo)->finderFlags & kIsInvisible)
visible = NO;
}

return visible;
}


Regards,
Jeremy

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