Before I start, I need to stress the fact that I have looked at every post dealing with the documents directory.
So I will try to disect my problem to better help you help me.
I am developing an iOS application targeted for 5.1. I am using XCode 4.4.1 and the iOS simulator Version 5.1 (272.21).
It is in my understanding that when an app is installed in the simulator, its directory structure is mapped under
/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/[IOS_VERSION]/Applications/[APP_UUID]
This is properly reflected when I run my application.
Furthermore I am able to successfully create and use a temporary directory using the following code
NSString *tmpDir = NSTemporaryDirectory();
which results in the following path
/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/[IOS_VERSION]/Applications/[APP_UUID]/tmp
The problem starts appearing when I want to work with the Documents directory that is supposed to be in
/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/[IOS_VERSION]/Applications/[APP_UUID]/Documents
The following code checks for the existence of that path, and then logs it using NSLog, and even though it says it exists navigating to that location returns a file not found.
+ (NSString *) currentPath{
NSArray *searchPaths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentPath = [searchPaths objectAtIndex:0];
searchPaths=nil;
BOOL fileExists = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:documentPath];
if (fileExists == TRUE) {
NSLog(@" %@ already exists",documentPath);
} else {
NSLog(@"doesn't exists");
NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
NSError *error;
if(![fileManager createDirectoryAtPath:documentPath withIntermediateDirectories:true attributes:nil error:&error])
{
NSLog(@"Couldn't create documents directory %@",error);
}
}
return documentPath;
}
The result is of the NSLog line is:
2012-08-09 23:12:09.813 AMM[22656:c07] /Users/fotis/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/5.1/Applications/7CE8645A-BDD7-4AB6-8CAB-B0EF1579CD2B/Documents already exists
In the terminal
> pwd
/Users/fotis/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/5.1/Applications/7CE8645A-BDD7-4AB6-8CAB-B0EF1579CD2B
>ls -lsa
total 0
0 drwxr-xr-x 5 fotis 170 Aug 9 23:12 .
0 drwxr-xr-x 3 fotis 102 Aug 9 22:50 ..
0 drwxr-xr-x 30 fotis 1020 Aug 9 23:12 AMM.app
0 drwxr-xr-x 4 fotis 136 Aug 9 22:50 Library
0 drwxr-xr-x 4 fotis 136 Aug 9 22:51 tmp
As you can see, my Documents ghost directory is not there. For the life of me I cannot understand the magic behind it all. One thing to note is that I am running this in the "-didFinishLaunchingWithOptions" method of my app delegate, because I am doing some initialization there.
Any ideas?
