nothing special, the files get copied in order. it’s a really simple app.
The goal is to rename the existing directory with the new -APPL extension and
then copy new files into that.
On Apr 15, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Andy Lee wrote:
> Scott, are you copying the files asynchronously? I wonder if there are some
> files still in the process of being copied to the old directory, so the old
> directory either doesn't really go away, or it gets recreated. What happens
> if you comment out the actual copying of the files? And if you log the names
> of the files as they are copied, which ones go to /tmp/boo/Friday and which
> go to /tmp/boo/Friday-AAPL, relative to the point where you call
> moveItemAtPath:toPath:error:?
>
> --Andy
>
>
> On Apr 15, 2011, at 1:47 AM, Scott Anguish wrote:
>
>> OK, before anyone asks... I’m working on a tool for my own use, and so I
>> don’t want to bug people at work about it.
>>
>> Thus, I bug you. :-)
>>
>> I’m perplexed by this one.
>>
>> I’m trying something stupidly simple, and I’m getting really odd results.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> All this seems really straight forward. I’m using NSFileManager
>> moveItemAtPath:toPath:error:
>>
>> Code, whittled down to the important stuff..
>>
>> shootPath is the original path that things are getting copied to. (for
>> example /tmp/boo/Friday) and files are copied into that.
>>
>> if ([[eachPath pathExtension] isEqualToString:@"mp4"]) {
>>
>> MDItemRef
>> fileMetadata=MDItemCreate(NULL,(CFStringRef)eachPath);
>> NSDictionary *metadataDictionary=
>> (NSDictionary*)MDItemCopyAttributes (fileMetadata,(CFArrayRef)[NSArray
>> arrayWithObject:(id)kMDItemWhereFroms]);
>>
>> NSString *whereFrom=[[metadataDictionary
>> objectForKey:(id)kMDItemWhereFroms] lastObject];
>>
>> NSURL *whereFromURL=[NSURL URLWithString:whereFrom];
>>
>> NSString *rawDomain=[whereFromURL host];
>> NSRange foundRange=[rawDomain rangeOfString:@“apple"
>> options:(NSCaseInsensitiveSearch)];
>> NSLog(@"foundRange -
>> %d,%d",foundRange.location,foundRange.length);
>>
>> // all the above works fine
>>
>> if (foundRange.location > 0) { // should be comparing
>> to NSNotFound, but that failed miserably.
>> newShootPath=[shootPath
>> stringByAppendingString:@“-APPL”];
>> // make sure I’ve not already done this
>> if (![self directoryExists:newShootPath]) {
>>
>> success=[fileManager
>> moveItemAtPath:shootPath toPath:newShootPath error:&theError];
>> NSLog(@"should be moving - %d",success);
>> //success is true!
>>
>> // make the newShootPath, the shootPath
>> for other files
>> [shootPath autorelease];
>> shootPath=[newShootPath retain];
>>
>> // this just updates a table for
>> progress
>> if (!success)
>> tempTableitem.error=theError;
>> [self
>> addObjectToTableContents:tempTableitem];
>> [tempTableitem release];
>> theError=nil;
>> }
>> }
>> }
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> what am I missing?
>>
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