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Re: How to detect that a directory is a package file
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Re: How to detect that a directory is a package file


  • Subject: Re: How to detect that a directory is a package file
  • From: Doug Knowles <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:33:35 -0500

ooh, NSWorkspace is the answer to a whole bunch of questions. Thanks!

On 12/18/05, Ryan Britton <email@hidden> wrote:
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/
> ApplicationKit/ObjC_classic/Classes/NSWorkspace.html#//apple_ref/occ/
> instm/NSWorkspace/isFilePackageAtPath:
>
>
> On Dec 18, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Doug Knowles wrote:
>
> > I'm playing with an application that scans the files in a directory
> > tree.
> >
> > At the moment, I'm using fileExistsAtPath:isDirectory to examine the
> > file at a particular path, but the "isDirectory" part returns YES for
> > package files (.app, .pages, etc.).
> >
> > I fear that the answer to this is excruciatingly simple, but how do a
> > know whether a directory is a folder, or one of the "opaque" file
> > packages that the Finder, for example, knows to present as a leaf node
> > in the directory tree? I stumbled across some documentation that the
> > Finder does this in part by recognizing extensions, but I hope that's
> > not true (or that there's an API where I can use the same knowledge).
> >
> > TIA,
> > Doug Knowles
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