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 23:16:27 -0400
nothing special, the files get copied in order. it’s a really simple app.
The goal is to rename the existing directory with the new -APPL extension and then copy new files into that.
On Apr 15, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Andy Lee wrote:
> Scott, are you copying the files asynchronously? I wonder if there are some files still in the process of being copied to the old directory, so the old directory either doesn't really go away, or it gets recreated. What happens if you comment out the actual copying of the files? And if you log the names of the files as they are copied, which ones go to /tmp/boo/Friday and which go to /tmp/boo/Friday-AAPL, relative to the point where you call moveItemAtPath:toPath:error:?
>
> --Andy
>
>
> On Apr 15, 2011, at 1:47 AM, Scott Anguish wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
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