On Aug 22, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote: > Turns out the problem I was having with this is because of the behaviour of > [NSURL fileURLWithPath:isDirectory:]. > > When I passed the path to the iPhoto database file (~/Pictures/iPhoto > Library/Album.xml) the resulting URL was bizarrely altered to point to some > non-existent path within my sandbox. In fact it looks like a bug because it > ended up concatenating 'file://' somewhere in the middle of the path which > makes no sense.
>From the +fileURLWithPath:isDirectory: documentation: "If path begins with a tilde, it must first be expanded with stringByExpandingTildeInPath." Note also that paths with '~' in them are treated differently in sandboxed apps. > Instead, I used [NSURL URLWithString:] and it works correctly. Don't do that. +URLWithString: expects a string that represents a URL, not a string that represents a filesystem path. -- Greg Parker gpar...@apple.com Runtime Wrangler _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
