Re: Changing file & directory names

FROM : Sherm Pendley
DATE : Sat Jul 01 20:15:22 2006

On Jul 1, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Dean Snyder wrote:

> Greg Titus wrote at 10:26 AM on Saturday, July 1, 2006:
>

>> [[NSFileManager defaultManager] movePath:src toPath:dest
>> handler:handler];    
>>
>> Hope this helps!

>

>> From Apple documentation for NSFileManager movePath:

>
> "If source is a file, the method creates a file at destination that
> holds the exact contents of the original file and then deletes the
> original file. If source is a directory, movePath:toPath:handler:
> creates a new directory at destination and recursively populates it 
> with
> duplicates of the files and directories contained in source."
>
> This is really heavyweight


No, it's not heavy at all - you've just misunderstood what it does. 
When the above says "creates a file at destination", it's talking 
about creating a new directory entry that points to the same data, 
not about copying the data.

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