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Curnelious
Curnelious

Reputation: 1

Get all files form a group folder?

After long struggling, I just can't do the most simple and obvious thing, to read all files/photos from a specific folder(group) that I create in my app by "Add new group" menu on the left side of Xcode.

I have tried so many pieces of code, all tells me there is no such folder, but the folder is there in front of me.

     if let path = Bundle.main.resourcePath {

        let imagePath = path + "/Artworks"
        let url = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: imagePath)
        let fileManager = FileManager.default

        let properties = [URLResourceKey.localizedNameKey,
                          URLResourceKey.creationDateKey, URLResourceKey.localizedTypeDescriptionKey]

        do {
            let imageURLs = try fileManager.contentsOfDirectory(at: url as URL, includingPropertiesForKeys: properties, options:FileManager.DirectoryEnumerationOptions.skipsHiddenFiles)

            print("image URLs: \(imageURLs)")
            // Create image from URL
            //var myImage =  UIImage(data: NSData(contentsOfURL: imageURLs[0])!)

        } catch let error1 as NSError {
            print(error1.description)
        }
    }

 The file “Artworks” couldn’t be opened because there is no such file."

What else should I do to simply be able to arrange lots of photos inside a group folder and read only from that folder all the photos names/urls ?

EDIT : Printing the path gives me : 

/Users/me/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/673ED39D-61D6-4F2D-BAC9-3EC7C4AC2089/data/Containers/Bundle/Application/7CDD3B62-B04O-4A48-8716-D83F6EDA5689/appName.app/Artworks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1335

Answers (2)

ArunGJ
ArunGJ

Reputation: 2683

You have to create folder reference while adding the images in Xcode project.

[![Folder reference][1]][1]

Once folder reference is created, it will look like below.

[![Project navigator][2]][2]

The files can be read using the below code.

let directory = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "iPad", ofType: nil, inDirectory: "1")
let contentsArray = try? FileManager.default.contentsOfDirectory(atPath: directory!)

The contentsArray will have a count of 7 in this case. [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/oLkyD.png [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/Toizp.png

Upvotes: 4

Curnelious
Curnelious

Reputation: 1

Actually, amazingly, for 2 days no one could tell me the real issue here. Creating a group, is completely different from dragging a folder into the project.

For some reason, with Apple, its always complicated with files. I have to figure out the NOT so intuitive approach that a group that looks like a folder, is nothing but a nice way to look at something, and will not create a real folder accessible by the file manager.

Simply put, create a blue folder outside Xcode and drag it in.

Upvotes: -2

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