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Nikhil Viradiya
Nikhil Viradiya

Reputation: 85

Get the Attributes of every item in the Document Directory iOS Swift

I've been trying to get Attributes such as File Type, Creation Date, File Size of all the items in the Document Directory.

Here is the code that I've been using, but it returns me just "NSFileTypeDirectory"

 let filemgr = FileManager.default
        
        
     do
     {
        let attribs: NSDictionary? = try filemgr.attributesOfItem(
            atPath: documentDirectoryPath!) as NSDictionary
        if let fileattribs = attribs
     {
            let type = fileattribs["NSFileType"] as! String
            print("File type \(type)")
     }
     }
     catch
     {
            print(error)
     }

I think its returning the attributes of Document folder.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2340

Answers (2)

Neph
Neph

Reputation: 2001

Based on @KarthikeyanBose's code: To get the infos for all the files in the Documents directory do this:

let fileManager = FileManager.default

if let documentsURLs = fileManager.urls(for: .documentDirectory, in: .userDomainMask).first {
    do {
        let fileNames = try fileManager.contentsOfDirectory(atPath: documentsURLs.path)

        for fileName in fileNames {
            let fileURL = documentsURLs.appendingPathComponent(fileName)

            let fileAttribute = try fileManager.attributesOfItem(atPath: fileURL.path)
            let fileSize = fileAttribute[FileAttributeKey.size] as! Int64
            let fileType = fileAttribute[FileAttributeKey.type] as! String
            let filecreationDate = fileAttribute[FileAttributeKey.creationDate] as! Date
            let fileExtension = fileURL.pathExtension;

            print("Name: \(fileName), Size: \(fileSize), Type: \(fileType), Date: \(filecreationDate), Extension: \(fileExtension)")
        }
    } catch {
        print("Error: \(error)")
    }
} //Handle this "else" error too, even though this really shouldn't happen

This code prints e.g.:

Name: Deadpool.png, Size: 39225, Type: NSFileTypeRegular, Date: 2019-05-27 11:03:03 +0000, Extension: png

Upvotes: 1

Karthikeyan Bose
Karthikeyan Bose

Reputation: 1274

try this

let fileManager = FileManager.default
let documentdirectory = fileManager.urls(for: .documentDirectory, in: .userDomainMask).first
let filePath = documentdirectory?.appendingPathComponent("your file name").path

do {
  let fileAttribute = try fileManager.attributesOfItem(atPath: filePath!)
  let fileSize = fileAttribute[FileAttributeKey.size] as! Int64
  let fileType = fileAttribute[FileAttributeKey.type] as! String
  let filecreationDate = fileAttribute[FileAttributeKey.creationDate] as! Date

} catch let error {
  print(error.localizedDescription)

Upvotes: 3

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