Re: Changing file & directory names
Re: Changing file & directory names
- Subject: Re: Changing file & directory names
- From: Sherm Pendley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 15:47:38 -0400
On Jul 1, 2006, at 3:18 PM, John Stiles wrote:
Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Jul 1, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Dean Snyder wrote:
Greg Titus wrote at 10:26 AM on Saturday, July 1, 2006:
[[NSFileManager defaultManager] movePath:src toPath:dest
handler:handler];
Hope this helps!
From Apple documentation for NSFileManager movePath:
"If source is a file, the method creates a file at destination that
holds the exact contents of the original file and then deletes the
original file. If source is a directory, movePath:toPath:handler:
creates a new directory at destination and recursively populates
it with
duplicates of the files and directories contained in source."
This is really heavyweight
No, it's not heavy at all - you've just misunderstood what it
does. When the above says "creates a file at destination", it's
talking about creating a new directory entry that points to the
same data, not about copying the data.
I don't see any way that you could read this entry without
interpreting it as "directories are copied element-by-element."
There's no ambiguity at all.
It's done that way because link() cannot create a hard link to a
directory. Even so, once the new directory is created, link()
followed by unlink() are used to move files into it.
sherm--
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