Re: renaming directories and moving files into them (NSFileManager)
Re: renaming directories and moving files into them (NSFileManager)
- Subject: Re: renaming directories and moving files into them (NSFileManager)
- From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:51:48 -0400
On Apr 15, 2011, at 2:05 AM, Ken Thomases wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2011, at 12:47 AM, Scott Anguish wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> For what it's worth, I didn't follow that.
>
Sorry..
The directory is named a name derived from the file
so /tmp/boo/Friday
and when it encounters a file that has more specific information, it should be renamed
/tmp/boo/Friday-APPL
that should rename the existing directory with the existing fills and then copy all the new files to the new path name
>
>
>> newShootPath=[shootPath stringByAppendingString:@“-APPL”];
>> // make sure I’ve not already done this
>> if (![self directoryExists:newShootPath]) {
>>
>> success=[fileManager moveItemAtPath:shootPath toPath:newShootPath error:&theError];
>
> Why not log both shootPath and newShootPath right here, before the move? What does it show?
>
It shows the correct values.
shootPath is /tmp/boo/Friday
newPath is /tmp/boo/Friday-APPL
the odd thing is the move is creating the /tmp/boo/Friday-APPL directory, rather than just renaming the existing one.
>> 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.
>
> Couldn't follow that, either, I'm afraid. Perhaps you should just give the explicit set of paths of files, directories, etc. and which you want moved/renamed from where to where, and which are actually being moved/renamed from where to where.
I have
shootPath /tmp/boo/Friday
when the file is encountered the has the wherefrom that is associated with a Friday file, I want shootPath changed to
newPath /tmp/boo/Friday-APPL
and new files moved to there.
It’s the messed up behavior of moveItemAtPath:toPath:error: that is weirding me out.
—
The app works without the renaming of the directory, and I want feedback in the table as to what got moved and where. and since I need to use spotlight and don’t want to learn the necessary extras, how to access spotlight and such from a scripting language for a one-off-app, that’s why I’m doing this.
Yes, I could churn over the files, and I thought about it, but it seems like it shouldn’t be necessary. If I have to I can. But this seems like wrong move behavior which I should be diagnosing and then reporting.
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