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Re: Renaming files?


  • Subject: Re: Renaming files?
  • From: Jeremy Dronfield <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:11:46 +0000


On 20 Dec 2004, at 5:01 pm, Christoffer Lerno wrote:

I thought I had renaming files nailed down by using NSFileManager's movePath:toPath:handler: but it has problems with spaces & non ascii characters in filenames - the documentation unfortunately doesn't reveal how this is circumvented.

In my experience, the only character -movePath:toPath:handler: can't cope with is a "/". It's possible, using the Finder, to put a slash in a filename, and NSFileManager interprets it as a path separator. (There may even be a way round this, but I haven't looked. I know Carbon can cope with it.)


If you're having trouble with spaces, I think there's something going wrong with the way you're feeding pathnames to NSFileManager. I just tried it with files called:

“!”•¶ ^^ é @£##   {€} %\<> .gif
©∆    Ø∏  ‡   ‰üœÚ  ¬ ƒ©    ≠ª  .tiff

which I renamed as

new0001.gif
new0002.tiff

using -[NSFileManager movePath:toPath:handler:] No problem. To test it back the other way, I renamed "new0002.tiff" as "U î Ü © #€ {˚}0002.tiff". Again no problem.


I mostly use NSWorkspace and NSWorkspace is a lot better at dealing with sort of things. Unfortunately it seems that rename is missing from NSWorkspace.

NSWorkspace isn't really intended for that kind of low-level file management operation.



So what are my options aside from working with FSRenameUnicode and such?

Use -[NSFileManager movePath:toPath:handler:]. It's perfectly capable of doing what you want.


Regards,
Jeremy

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