I'm writing an application that copies files from one folder to another. I've been using NSFileManager "copyItemAtPath:toPath:error:" and it generally works well. However, when trying to copy files from a local folder to a folder on a remote volume, "copyItemAtPath:toPath:error:" will sometimes fails to set the creation and modification dates of the item copied. The problem is that when it fails to set the attributes of the item it copies, it will not report it as an error (not sure if this is a bug, this is kind of very annoying).
In any case, I wanted to dig a little deeper to find what's going on with that since I set permissions on the original folder to read/write for everyone and the receiving or destination folder on the remote drive with the same read/write permission to everybody. Of course, I connected with my user ID and password on the remote volume. When I check the permissions in the Finder, I see that both the source and destination folders have read/write permissions for the owner, the group and everybody. So, from there, I decided to systematically set the attributes myself, since "copyItemAtPath:toPath:error:" is failing to do it. So, I'm using "attributesOfItemAtPath:error:" and "setAttributesOfItemAtPath:error" to try to set the attributes of the copied item to that of the original item. I was not expecting it to really succeed but at least I was hoping to catch the error. That's where it gets interesting. When it fails, the localized description of the error is invariably "You don’t have permission to save the file “Blah” in the folder “Folder Blah”. "Folder Blah" in this case is the destination folder on the remote drive. So, what am I missing here? The error is plain wrong in the first place because I was not attempting to copy the item, it's already copied! I just checked again "Folder Blah" permissions and they are still set to read/write to owner, group and everybody. Can someone explains this result? Thanks in advance! -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat/Skype:LaurentDaudelin http://www.nemesys-soft.com/ Logiciels Nemesys Software laur...@nemesys-soft.com _______________________________________________ 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
