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Important: This document is replaced by File System Programming Guide.
Introduction to Low-Level File Management Programming Topics
This document describes methods and functions for manipulating files and directories (folders).
You should read this document to learn how to:
Represent file paths in Cocoa
Perform basic operations with files and directories
Find standard directories on the system
Organization of This Document
This document contains the following articles:
File Management Classes describes the main classes you use for file-system operations.
Creating Paths and Locating Directories explains how to compose paths used in file-system operations.
File Management describes how you can perform many generic file-system operations.
Information about Files and Volumes describes how you can get and set information about files and volumes.
Using URLs describes how to use
NSURL
for various file-related operations.Working with the Contents of a Directory describes how to retrieve the contents of a directory using an
NSDirectoryEnumerator
object.Resolving Aliases describes how to resolve aliases in a file path.
File Handle describes the class that provides a wrapper for accessing open files or communications channels.
HFS File Types describes the APIs that allow a Cocoa application to retrieve and create HFS type and creator codes.
See Also
To learn how to use file wrappers (and the NSFileWrapper
class), see Application File Management.
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