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Re: NSWorkspace issue
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Re: NSWorkspace issue


  • Subject: Re: NSWorkspace issue
  • From: Varun Chandramohan <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 07 May 2014 22:22:39 +0000
  • Thread-topic: NSWorkspace issue

Ah yes, that was the mistake. I did not notice it. Probably its always a
good idea to use fileURLWithPath as I always deal with file urls and not
http://.


On 7/05/2014 3:58 pm, "Ken Thomases" <email@hidden> wrote:

>On May 7, 2014, at 12:02 AM, Varun Chandramohan wrote:
>
>>    NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL
>>URLWithString:@"/Users/usr/Desktop/libd.dylib"];
>
>This is not correct.  +[NSURL URLWithString:] expects a valid URL string.
> What you're providing is a file path string, which is not a URL string.
>A URL string might be "http://www.apple.com"; or
>"file:///Users/usr/Desktop/libd.dylib".  However, never just prepend
>"file://" to a file path to try to make it into a URL string.  That
>doesn't correctly handle a path which contains characters which are not
>valid in URLs.
>
>The correct thing to do is use +[NSURL fileURLWithPath:] or a similar
>method.
>
>Regards,
>Ken
>


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