When it's the only information you have about the file, it's the best you can 
do.

Would be neat if there were a “UTI override” file attribute key, though.

--Kyle Sluder
(Sent from the road)

On Jul 14, 2013, at 12:39 PM, Mike Abdullah <mabdul...@karelia.com> wrote:

> 
> On 14 Jul 2013, at 17:59, Kyle Sluder <k...@ksluder.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 14, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Mike Abdullah <mabdul...@karelia.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 14 Jul 2013, at 08:40, Shane Stanley <sstan...@myriad-com.com.au> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 14/07/2013, at 1:30 PM, Lee Ann Rucker <lruc...@vmware.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Haven't tried it, but [NSWorkspace isFilePackageAtPath:] looks like what 
>>>>> you want. If that's not sufficient, there are other things in NSWorkspace 
>>>>> that test files.
>>>> 
>>>> The problem, though, is that a file wrapper doesn't have a path.
>>> 
>>> I think you have a couple of options, neither terribly satisfactory:
>>> 
>>> A) Use the .filename property to work your way through the wrappers and 
>>> build up the expected URL/path of the file. Then query that to know if it's 
>>> a package.
>> 
>> This sounds like the correct approach to me. Grab the file extension, call 
>> UTTypeCreatePreferredIdentifierForTag to convert it to a UTI, then call 
>> UTTypeConformsTo (or -[NSWorkspace type:conformsToType:]) to determine if 
>> the type confirms to kUTTypePackage.
> 
> I have to admit, relying on file extension makes me uncomfortable, but maybe 
> it's good enough.
> 

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