Re: iOS 7/8 sandboxing question. Path to Documents folder changing on every app launch?
Re: iOS 7/8 sandboxing question. Path to Documents folder changing on every app launch?
- Subject: Re: iOS 7/8 sandboxing question. Path to Documents folder changing on every app launch?
- From: Clark Smith Cox III <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:47:06 -0700
> On Apr 6, 2015, at 07:52, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I'm running into an interesting issue I'm trying to track down under iOS 7 and 8. (Xcode 6.2, Mac OS 10.10.2)
>
> Our app downloads files and saves them within the app for display later when the user wants to bring them up.
>
> It appears that after the first launch, the files can't be found.
>
> Does the application path change upon subsequent launches as a result of iOS sandboxing?
Your application cannot rely on the path to itself to remain consistent across launches. This has *always* been the case on both the device and in the simulator.
> I'm looking into how we are getting our files' path at the moment and I just wanted to know for sure if I should expect the file path to the application's Documents folder to change under iOS 7/8 under each launch.
It might not change *every* launch, but you should expect that it *could* change between any two launches.
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Clark Smith Cox III
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