Re: How to get all the path of an application present on the disk
Re: How to get all the path of an application present on the disk
- Subject: Re: How to get all the path of an application present on the disk
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:57:52 -0700
But only if Spotlight is turned on for this disk. I mention this because I recently broke my own app under these exact circumstances, by turning off Spotlight! I had to turn it off because it was misbehaving - and I'm sure I'm not the only one. m.
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:39:32 +0100, Tim Schröder <email@hidden> said:
>I don't have the code at hand, but you could run a NSMetadataQuery and search for kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier==abc.xyz.
>
>Best, Tim
>
>Am 20.03.2013 um 13:08 schrieb anni saini <email@hidden>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm tried to find out all the locations where my app is present on the disk. Is there any Cocoa API which returns an array of path of an application.
>>
>> For example: my app identifier is "abc.xyz" and name is "ABCXYZ". I have four copies of app on the disk so I want to find out all the paths.
>>
>> I'm able to find it using:
>>
>> - (NSString*)fullPathForApplication:(NSString*)appName;
>> or
>> LSFindApplicationForInfo()
>>
>> Both methods return the single path. I want all the path of my app which are located on the disk?
>>
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