The operation couldn’t be completed. (Cocoa error 260.)

Question

I'm new on IOS development and i'm working on a pdf application and i need to store a PDF file on a NSData variable, I have the PDF path but i get this message error when i try to put this pdf on the NSData variable using dataWithContentsOfFile her is my simple code :

NSError *error;
NSString *PdfPath = [NSString stringWithFormat:(@"%@"),document.fileURL ];
NSString *newPath = [PdfPath stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"file://localhost" withString:@""];
NSLog(@"OriginalPdfPath => %@", newPath);
NSData *pdfData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:newPath options:NSDataReadingUncached error:&error];

NB : the pdf path is in this format : /Users/bluesettle/Library/Application%20Support/iPhone%20Simulator/6.0/Applications/BBEF320E-7E2A-49DA-9FCF-9CFB01CC0402/ContractApp.app/Pro.iOS.Table.Views.pdf

thanks for your help

Solution 1

Cocoa error 260 is a NSFileReadNoSuchFileError (as listed in FoundationErrors.h), meaning the file could not be found at the path you specified.

The problem is that your path still contains encoded spaces (%20), because you're basing it on the URL. You can simply do this:

NSData *pdfData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:[document.fileURL path]];

Solution 2

Try to use NSBundle

NSString *newPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"filename" ofType:@"pdf"]

Edit:

Than you can use bundleWithPath method, here is an example:

NSString *documentsDir= [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/Documents", NSHomeDirectory()];

NSString *newPath= [[NSBundle bundleWithPath:documentsDir] bundlePath];

Comments

[Andreas Ley]

What's lPdfPath? Why do you replace the substring? What's the output of newPath at your NSLog line?

[Admin]

I mean PdfPath its just an error and i replace the string because i found that the path need to be without the "file://localhost" prefix and the output for the NSlog is "/Users/bluesettle/Library/Application%20Support/iPhone%20Si‌​mulator/6.0/Applicat‌​ions/BBEF320E-7E2A-4‌​9DA-9FCF-9CFB01CC040‌​2/ContractApp.app/Pr‌​o.iOS.Table.Views.pd‌​f"

[Admin]

for me I need to use files that are not in the resources folder

[Admin]

I removed the %20 from the path using [lPdfPath stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEnc‌​oding]; the 620 error is gone but i get the NSData = (Null)

[Admin]

when i use the absoluteString i get always the %20 on the path that why i use stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding

[Andreas Ley]

@hatimhaffane Ah, sorry, you're right. Post edited to provide a working solution.

[Admin]

thank you but still get the NSData variable as Null i will try to find a solution

[Andreas Ley]

The current solution definitely works. If you use the method with &error, what does it say?

[Andreas Ley]

Then I suppose the file is simply empty. :)

[Admin]

your code works well i think i have an error on creating the new pdf thanks