Re: Possible Bug in NSFileManager -moveItemAtPath:toPath:error:

FROM : Jonathan Dann
DATE : Sat May 31 23:33:41 2008

On 31 May 2008, at 17:37, Torsten Curdt wrote:

>
> On May 31, 2008, at 18:27, Jonathan Dann wrote:
>

>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> Just a quick one.  I would expect renaming a file named HELLO.TXT 
>> to hello.txt (or another variant where the case of a few letters 
>> change) with -moveItemAtPath:toPath:error: to be allowed.  As it is 
>> not (it generates an NSFileWriteUnknownError) is this a bug or just 
>> me?  If not, is there are more appropriate API for renaming files?

>
> Have you tried:
>
> HELLO.TXT -> something
> something -> hello.txt
>
> Just a thought ....maybe it's related to the filesystem no being 
> case-sensitive.
>
> cheers
> --
> Torsten


Thanks Torsten that works, just feels like a hack as I have to use 
another method to generate a filename that isn't in the working 
directory.

Jon