On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 18:48:05 -0500, Charles Srstka said:

>NSItemReplacementDirectory isn’t what you want either; that’s supposed
>to be used for implementing a safe save feature, IIRC.

Actually, the docs for URLForDirectory::::: say "You can also use this method 
to create a new temporary directory for storing things like autosave files; to 
do so..."

>Probably your best bet is [NSURL file
>URLWithPath:NSTemporaryDirectory()].

Except that doesn't replace NSTemporaryDirectory at all! :)

But indeed, it seems like it's the best thing, unless someone else has a better 
idea...

>I actually still use the
>FSFindFolder() API and then use CFURLCreateFromFSRef() to get a URL, but
>that’s looking less and less like a good solution these days.

Agreed.

>filed a radar report on this last week (rdar://11142974); there are
>actually quite a lot of directories that are not available via -
>URLForDirectory:inDomain:bla:bla:bla: that were available via the older
>FSFindFolder() API, many of which were quite useful. A few of them are:

They've been missing since 10.0, don't get your hopes up.  IMNSHO, dupes are a 
waste of time here.

>And a whole lot more. Feel free to file a radar report yourself if you
>agree that -URLForDirectory:etc:etc:etc:etc: needs to be beefed up;

Got ya beat, my bug on this is <rdar://3934743>.  I'm sure it'll be fixed any 
day now!

>Apple uses duplicate radar reports to prioritize fixes.

A tired refrain (no offense).

Cheers,

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Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com 
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada

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