On 11/02/2010, at 2:44 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > I'm trying to find a best way to create the Application Support > folder. I'm rather new at Cocoa so it's taking me a while to do even > this simple thing. I'm also interested in ensuring my application can > be localized easily. > > I have a function "- (NSString *)applicationSupportFolder" that > returns the desired folder name, properly localized. I call this > function and then use NSFileManager to check for the existence of the > folder. Because there can be a file (NOT a folder) already bearing the > folder name, I need to handle that possibility. Everything I've found > on the internet just ignores this case. > > Can anyone recommend what I should do?
It depends. If there is a file bearing that name - unlikely, really - then what do you want to do about it? You could delete it, or you could just choose another name for your folder. Either way, NSFileManager has methods to do what you want. Renaming you can handle yourself - just keep renaming until you get a clear outcome that meets your needs (appending digits is a simple way). [NSFileManager fileExistsAtPath:isDirectory:] can tell you whether you're looking at a file or folder. For the rename situation, your -applicationSupportFolder method (why not make it a class method?) can do all the work internally to make sure that the folder is valid, belongs to you, created if necessary and so on, so clients of it can just use the method to work with the folder, safe in the knowledge that there's no more to do. Also, presumably you are returning the name of YOUR unique application support folder with the ~Library/Application Support directory. That folder can be found using NSApplicationSupportDirectory, then you usually will put your own folder inside this. If your folder uses your app's bundle identifier, it will almost certainly not collide with anyone else's. However, a much earlier discussion on that seemed to indicate that most people use the application name, which might not be quite so guaranteed to be unique. --Graham _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
