iOS Simulator "documents" path...

[paulsr]

Greetings:

On my Mac, my documents special folder is /Users/paulr/Documents

But if I test an app on the iOS Simulator, this path gets changed to:

/Users/paulr/Library/Application Support/Simulator/5.1/Applications/long-hex-nbr/Documents

My question is: Does the "long-hex-nbr" part remain constant throughout the life of my testing of this app, or will it change when I least expect it?

TIA

--paul

[endernafi]

Is it exactly long-hex-nbr or something like this 3DE34D29-EB76-449C-8892-FD752DC9F42B?
Just out of curiosity, but probably second one, right?

Anyways, it doesn't change until you delete your app via Finder or within iPhone Simulator.


Regards,

~ Ender Nafi Elekcioglu

[paulsr]

Is it exactly long-hex-nbr or something like this 3DE34D29-EB76-449C-8892-FD752DC9F42B?
Just out of curiosity, but probably second one, right?

Anyways, it doesn't change until you delete your app via Finder or within iPhone Simulator.


Regards,

~ Ender Nafi Elekcioglu

Yes, the second one. A long hex number with dashes.

I wasn't sure if it would change, so I'm glad to hear it won't!

Thanks...

--paul

[CALL-151]

True, but your question implies that you're hard coding a file path with that, which will fail when you put your app on a real device. Just use specialFolderPath("documents"), or something like:

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put the documents folder into tDocumentPath

[paulsr]

True, but your question implies that you're hard coding a file path with that, which will fail when you put your app on a real device. Just use specialFolderPath("documents"), or something like:

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put the documents folder into tDocumentPath

Thanks, but no, I wanted to put some files into the documents folder, for testing.

--paul