Re: Help with NSData dataWithContentsOfURL

2010-02-03 Thread Graham Cox
On 04/02/2010, at 4:21 PM, Michael Ash wrote: > Why is everybody so worried about loading an excessive amount of data > if it's a directory, but not if it's a file? HFS+ is capable of > holding files over a billion gigabytes long, which you're going to > have a certain amount of trouble squeezing

Re: Help with NSData dataWithContentsOfURL

2010-02-03 Thread Michael Ash
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Charles Srstka wrote: > On Feb 3, 2010, at 8:26 AM, cocoa-dev wrote: > >> Thanks Graham, here's what I'm thinking.  The documents for my app are >> fileWrappers.  Before the document is saved for the first time I can copy >> the files to a temp folder and during a

Re: Help with NSData dataWithContentsOfURL

2010-02-03 Thread Charles Srstka
On Feb 3, 2010, at 8:26 AM, cocoa-dev wrote: > Thanks Graham, here's what I'm thinking. The documents for my app are > fileWrappers. Before the document is saved for the first time I can copy the > files to a temp folder and during a save move them into the fileWrapper. I > guess I need to j

Re: Help with NSData dataWithContentsOfURL

2010-02-03 Thread Fritz Anderson
On 3 Feb 2010, at 8:08 AM, cocoa-dev wrote: > I have an app that attaches a file to a document like when you attach a file > to mail. I use the following to store the file as data in an iVar: > > fileData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url options:NSDataReadingUncached > error:(NSError **)err

Re: Help with NSData dataWithContentsOfURL

2010-02-03 Thread cocoa-dev
Thanks Graham, here's what I'm thinking. The documents for my app are fileWrappers. Before the document is saved for the first time I can copy the files to a temp folder and during a save move them into the fileWrapper. I guess I need to just abandon the whole NSData idea altogether. Too bad

Re: Help with NSData dataWithContentsOfURL

2010-02-03 Thread Graham Cox
On 04/02/2010, at 1:08 AM, cocoa-dev wrote: > Is there an alternative to capture the data of a wrapper and a folder? Not really, because of what these things are. At best a folder could be reduced to a tree of data objects, which is what a wrapper is. But to reduce an arbitrary folder to a sin

Help with NSData dataWithContentsOfURL

2010-02-03 Thread cocoa-dev
I have an app that attaches a file to a document like when you attach a file to mail. I use the following to store the file as data in an iVar: fileData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url options:NSDataReadingUncached error:(NSError **)errorPtr]; This works fine for regular files but not for