On Apr 15, 2011, at 2:05 AM, Ken Thomases wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2011, at 12:47 AM, Scott Anguish wrote:
>
>> I have an app that sorts a bunch of files and sticks them in a newly made
>> directories. When it finds a file that identifies WhereFroms (via spotlight,
>> from a downloaded file) I want it to rename that directory and then copy the
>> rest of the related files into that directory
>
> For what it's worth, I didn't follow that.
>
Sorry..
The directory is named a name derived from the file
so /tmp/boo/Friday
and when it encounters a file that has more specific information, it should be
renamed
/tmp/boo/Friday-APPL
that should rename the existing directory with the existing fills and then copy
all the new files to the new path name
>
>
>> newShootPath=[shootPath
>> stringByAppendingString:@“-APPL”];
>> // make sure I’ve not already done this
>> if (![self directoryExists:newShootPath]) {
>>
>> success=[fileManager
>> moveItemAtPath:shootPath toPath:newShootPath error:&theError];
>
> Why not log both shootPath and newShootPath right here, before the move?
> What does it show?
>
It shows the correct values.
shootPath is /tmp/boo/Friday
newPath is /tmp/boo/Friday-APPL
the odd thing is the move is creating the /tmp/boo/Friday-APPL directory,
rather than just renaming the existing one.
>> It always creates a new directory wit the new name, in the existing
>> shootPath directory (for example /tmp/boo/Friday) with Friday-APPL instead.
>> and then copies the newly found files into that. I’m boggled.
>
> Couldn't follow that, either, I'm afraid. Perhaps you should just give the
> explicit set of paths of files, directories, etc. and which you want
> moved/renamed from where to where, and which are actually being moved/renamed
> from where to where.
I have
shootPath /tmp/boo/Friday
when the file is encountered the has the wherefrom that is associated with a
Friday file, I want shootPath changed to
newPath /tmp/boo/Friday-APPL
and new files moved to there.
It’s the messed up behavior of moveItemAtPath:toPath:error: that is weirding me
out.
—
The app works without the renaming of the directory, and I want feedback in the
table as to what got moved and where. and since I need to use spotlight and
don’t want to learn the necessary extras, how to access spotlight and such from
a scripting language for a one-off-app, that’s why I’m doing this.
Yes, I could churn over the files, and I thought about it, but it seems like it
shouldn’t be necessary. If I have to I can. But this seems like wrong move
behavior which I should be diagnosing and then reporting.
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