iPhone: NSFilemanager fileExistsAtPath:isDirectory: not working properly?
This is a really easy mistake to make, but it's also really easy to fix. Enumerating the contents of a directory only gives you the name of the item, not the item's full path. You have to build the full path yourself. So where you have:
for (NSString *aPath in contentOfFolder) {
NSLog(@"apath: %@", aPath);
BOOL isDir;
if ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:aPath isDirectory:&isDir] &&isDir) {
[directoriesOfFolder addObject:aPath];
NSLog(@"directoriesOfFolder %@", directoriesOfFolder);
}
}
You should actually have this:
for (NSString *aPath in contentOfFolder) {
NSString * fullPath = [path stringByAppendingPathComponent:aPath];
BOOL isDir;
if ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:fullPath isDirectory:&isDir] &&isDir) {
[directoriesOfFolder addObject: fullPath];
}
}
Yllier
Updated on July 29, 2020Comments
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Yllier over 3 years
I'm working on an app for jailbroken iPhones. I'm trying to get only the directories of an folder. so I'm doing this:
NSArray *contentOfFolder = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] directoryContentsAtPath:path]; NSLog(@"contentOfFolder: %@", contentOfFolder); directoriesOfFolder = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity:100]; for (NSString *aPath in contentOfFolder) { NSLog(@"apath: %@", aPath); BOOL isDir; if ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:aPath isDirectory:&isDir] &&isDir) { [directoriesOfFolder addObject:aPath]; NSLog(@"directoriesOfFolder %@", directoriesOfFolder); } } NSLog(@"dirctories %@", directoriesOfFolder);
but look at what I get. when I get the content of the folder everything looks fine:
2009-07-28 23:23:35.930 Drowser[573:207] new path /private/var 2009-07-28 23:23:35.945 Drowser[573:207] contentOfFolder: ( Keychains, "Managed Preferences", MobileDevice, backups, cache, db, ea, empty, folders, lib, local, lock, log, logs, mobile, msgs, preferences, root, run, spool, stash, tmp, vm )
but then:
2009-07-28 23:23:35.950 Drowser[573:207] apath: Keychains 2009-07-28 23:23:35.954 Drowser[573:207] apath: Managed Preferences 2009-07-28 23:23:35.959 Drowser[573:207] apath: MobileDevice 2009-07-28 23:23:35.984 Drowser[573:207] apath: backups 2009-07-28 23:23:35.993 Drowser[573:207] apath: cache 2009-07-28 23:23:36.002 Drowser[573:207] apath: db 2009-07-28 23:23:36.011 Drowser[573:207] apath: ea 2009-07-28 23:23:36.019 Drowser[573:207] apath: empty 2009-07-28 23:23:36.028 Drowser[573:207] apath: folders 2009-07-28 23:23:36.037 Drowser[573:207] apath: lib 2009-07-28 23:23:36.046 Drowser[573:207] directoriesOfFolder ( lib )
only "lib"! is recognized as folder. how can that be? the others are folders too. I confirmed it via SSH.
does anyone have an idea? Am I doing something wrong?
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Dan Rosenstark about 13 yearsI'm sure I'm just exposing my ignorance on pointer syntax here, but don't you want a space between
&&
andisDir
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Dave DeLong about 13 years@Yar: I usually put one in, but I fat fingered this one and left it out. However, I don't believe that it's syntactically required.
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Dan Rosenstark about 13 yearsUnderstood, just checking that I'm not missing something. Thank you.