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pmerino
pmerino

Reputation: 6110

Copy a file from the app bundle to the user's Application Support folder

I'm making an app where I need to copy certain file from the app bundle to the user's Application Support folder. This is the code I'm using actually:

NSBundle *thisBundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];
NSString *executableName = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] infoDictionary] objectForKey:@"CFBundleExecutable"];
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSApplicationSupportDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *userpath = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
userpath = [userpath stringByAppendingPathComponent:executableName];    // The file will go in this directory
NSString *saveFilePath = [userpath stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"db.sqlite"];
NSFileManager *fileManager = [[NSFileManager alloc] init];
[fileManager copyItemAtPath:[thisBundle pathForResource:@"db" ofType:@"sqlite"] toPath:saveFilePath error:NULL];

But this doesn't copies anything, BTW this is a Mac app.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4387

Answers (2)

pmerino
pmerino

Reputation: 6110

Finally got it working with adding 

if ([fileManager fileExistsAtPath:userpath] == NO)
    [fileManager createDirectoryAtPath:userpath withIntermediateDirectories:YES attributes:nil error:nil];

And the resulting code is:

NSBundle *thisBundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];

NSString *executableName = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] infoDictionary] objectForKey:@"CFBundleExecutable"];
NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSApplicationSupportDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *userpath = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
userpath = [userpath stringByAppendingPathComponent:executableName];    // The file will go in this directory
NSString *saveFilePath = [userpath stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"db.sqlite"];
NSFileManager *fileManager = [[NSFileManager alloc] init];
if ([fileManager fileExistsAtPath:userpath] == NO)
    [fileManager createDirectoryAtPath:userpath withIntermediateDirectories:YES attributes:nil error:nil];

[fileManager copyItemAtPath:[thisBundle pathForResource:@"db" ofType:@"sqlite"] toPath:saveFilePath error:NULL];

Upvotes: 5

Chris Ballinger
Chris Ballinger

Reputation: 796

You might want to double-check your file paths:

NSLog(@"src: %@", [thisBundle pathForResource:@"db" ofType:@"sqlite"]);
NSLog(@"dst: %@", saveFilePath);

Upvotes: 0

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