Re: base64 NSData to NSString

FROM : Jens Alfke
DATE : Sat Mar 22 21:24:46 2008

On 22 Mar '08, at 1:19 PM, Marco Cassinerio wrote:

> I've done what you said, but nothing changed. I get the same data 
> content, like this:
>
> ImgR\362FBIL\346\326\303\331\376\247H+\222!\222C\303\351-+    
> \377\376\377\377\377\377\222!\221\302\221\301
>     \2161\216a
> mfile.icnsMacintosh HD>Developer/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/
> Resources/mfile.icns/\377\377


That's not base64. If I recall, you're looking at file aliases in a 
plist? In that case, what you have is an NSData object containing the 
raw data from an AliasHandle. You'll need to copy that into a handle, 
and use the CoreServices API <Aliases.h> to get an FSRef or path to 
the destination file. Actually, there are a couple of existing Cocoa 
wrappers for the Aliases API, and I'd recommend finding and using one 
of those instead, unless you're really familiar with Carbon concepts 
like handles and FSRefs.

—Jens