Re: Changing file & directory names

FROM : Greg Titus
DATE : Sat Jul 01 19:26:53 2006

[[NSFileManager defaultManager] movePath:src toPath:dest 
handler:handler];    

Hope this helps!
   - Greg

On Jul 1, 2006, at 10:23 AM, Dean Snyder wrote:

> It took 5 minutes to figure out and implement writing an NSTextView to
> an rtfd file; but I've now spent 4 hours simply trying to figure 
> out how
> to rename that existing file. I know an rtfd "file" is really a 
> package,
> i.e., a directory, but I can't find out how to rename a directory in
> Cocoa either.
>
> I've read scores of pages of documentation and looked at source code
> examples. (I got tired of navigating TextEdit's save-a-file code 
> trail,
> saveAs -> saveDocument -> getDocumentNameAndSave -> doSaveWithName ->
> saveToPath in Document.m & DocumentReadWrite.m.
>
> I don't want to actually write the contents of a file, or copy & 
> delete,
> etc., I just want to rename an existing file or directory.  You'd 
> think
> that [myNSFileWrapper setFilename:newName] or [myNSDocument
> setFileURL:newURL], for example, would do the trick; but no, they 
> do not
> do what it sounds like they should do, they merely set internal 
> variables.
>
> This should be really simple and really obvious, no?
>
>
> Dean A. Snyder
>
> Manager, Digital Hammurabi Project
> Computer Science Department, Whiting School of Engineering
> 218C New Engineering Building, 3400 North Charles Street
> Johns Hopkins University
> Baltimore, Maryland, USA 21218
>
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