Why is this not finding the correct pathForResource for these images?

Question

I have images "hit_circle_0.png" through "hit_circle_19.png" in my resources folder but for some reason this code never passes the test for "found" The annoying thing is that I have the exact same function working in another method just below it. And the files are there in "Copy Bundle Resources"

NSMutableArray *hitCircle = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {

    NSString *name = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"hit_circle_%i", i];
    NSString *filePath= [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:name ofType:@"png"];

    if ([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:filePath]){
        NSLog(@"file %@ was found", filePath);
    } else{
        NSLog(@"%@ not found", filePath);
    } 
}

Are you sure about file name? The iOS file system is case sensitive. — Bernd Rabe, Sep 05 '12 at 18:51

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 05 '12 at 18:37

I'm almost certain you're looking in the wrong subdirectory, and you need to use something like:

NSString *filePath= [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:name ofType:@"png" inDirectory:@"Hit_Circles"];

Or, if it's just in the Documents directory, you can get that using this, and then append your filename:

NSString* documentsPath = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) objectAtIndex:0];

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 07 '12 at 00:10

Just for kicks I went into the finder and renamed one of the files to exactly the same name and it loaded. Then I did the others - simply renaming them to the same name. I looked and there weren't any strange characters or whitespace before or after the file name. So now they all load fine into an array in the simulator. I still haven't figured out why.

Why is this not finding the correct pathForResource for these images?

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