Re: Anybody using NSFileManager here?
Re: Anybody using NSFileManager here?
- Subject: Re: Anybody using NSFileManager here?
- From: Mike Abdullah <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:38:49 +0100
On 14 Apr 2011, at 19:26, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2011, at 11:18, Fritz Anderson wrote:
>
>> On 14 Apr 2011, at 12:51 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
>>
> Is it normal that NSFileManager's isDeletableFileAtPath: returns YES for a locked file? Based on the result it returns, when I try to send it a removeItemAtPath:error:, it fails and the error localized description is '“This is a test.docx” couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission to access it.'. That seems wrong to me. First, isDeletableFileAtPath: shouldn't return YES for a locked file.
>
> Not a big problem. I can check if it's writable at path and if it's not, then I know the delete won't work but I was wondering if this was the expected behavior for NSFileManager isDeletableFileAtPath: ...
In general, Apple recommends that you go ahead and attempt an operation, handling any failure, rather than try to see if it will succeed ahead of time. For many operations/file systems/failures, it is not even possible to guess at the result without trying the op._______________________________________________
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