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Øystein
Øystein

Reputation: 1223

Getting path to users Library folder in OS X

I need to open a NSSavePanel with the users Library folder as destination folder. Normally I would do this by entering ~/Library/ in [NSSavePanel beginSheetForDirectory].

This works fine as long as the application is not sandboxed. For sandboxed applications this will result in the NSSavePanel trying to access a folder inside the applications document "box".

I cannot refer to /Users/username/Library/ as I do not know the users username at runtime. So how do I link to this path in cocoa?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 7284

Answers (3)

JWWalker
JWWalker

Reputation: 22707

I'm not sure how sandboxing fits in with this, but you can find the user's library directory using:

NSArray* paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains( NSLibraryDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES );

Upvotes: 12

syclonefx
syclonefx

Reputation: 2990

Not sure if this will work on a sandboxed application but this is how I do it right now. This will return /User/TheirUserName

-(NSString *)homeDirectory
{
    return NSHomeDirectory();
}

Upvotes: 2

Laurent Etiemble
Laurent Etiemble

Reputation: 27889

It depends what you are trying to achieve.

  • If the behavior is required by your application, then you can request a temporary exception entitlement when submitting the application to the Mac App Store. But sooner or later, you will have to find a solution to remove this exception.
  • If you want to access data that were previously stored in the ~/Library/ folder, you can define a migration strategy to move back the data into the sandbox.

Upvotes: 0

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