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renaming directories and moving files into them (NSFileManager)
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  • Subject: renaming directories and moving files into them (NSFileManager)
  • From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:47:56 -0400

OK, before anyone asks... I’m working on a tool for my own use, and so I don’t want to bug people at work about it.

Thus, I bug you. :-)

I’m perplexed by this one.

I’m trying something stupidly simple, and I’m getting really odd results.

I have an app that sorts a bunch of files and sticks them in a newly made directories. When it finds a file that identifies WhereFroms (via spotlight, from a downloaded file) I want it to rename that directory and then copy the rest of the related files into that directory

All this seems really straight forward. I’m using NSFileManager moveItemAtPath:toPath:error:

Code, whittled down to the important stuff..

shootPath is the original path that things are getting copied to. (for example /tmp/boo/Friday) and files are copied into that.

if ([[eachPath pathExtension] isEqualToString:@"mp4"]) {

			MDItemRef fileMetadata=MDItemCreate(NULL,(CFStringRef)eachPath);
			NSDictionary *metadataDictionary= (NSDictionary*)MDItemCopyAttributes (fileMetadata,(CFArrayRef)[NSArray arrayWithObject:(id)kMDItemWhereFroms]);

			NSString *whereFrom=[[metadataDictionary objectForKey:(id)kMDItemWhereFroms] lastObject];

			NSURL *whereFromURL=[NSURL URLWithString:whereFrom];

			NSString *rawDomain=[whereFromURL host];
			NSRange foundRange=[rawDomain rangeOfString:@“apple" options:(NSCaseInsensitiveSearch)];
			NSLog(@"foundRange - %d,%d",foundRange.location,foundRange.length);

			// all the above works fine

			if (foundRange.location > 0) { // should be comparing to NSNotFound, but that failed miserably.
				newShootPath=[shootPath stringByAppendingString:@“-APPL”];
				// make sure I’ve not already done this
				if (![self directoryExists:newShootPath]) {

					success=[fileManager moveItemAtPath:shootPath toPath:newShootPath error:&theError];
					NSLog(@"should be moving - %d",success);
					//success is true!

					// make the newShootPath, the shootPath for other files
					[shootPath autorelease];
					shootPath=[newShootPath retain];

					// this just updates a table for progress
					if (!success)
						tempTableitem.error=theError;
					[self addObjectToTableContents:tempTableitem];
					[tempTableitem release];
					theError=nil;
				}
				}
			}

It always creates a new directory wit the new name, in the existing shootPath directory (for example /tmp/boo/Friday) with Friday-APPL instead. and then copies the newly found files into that. I’m boggled.

what am I missing?

Any ideas_______________________________________________

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