as I can move all files from one directory to another directory in Objective-C?

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as I can move all files from one directory to another directory? I have my code so to move them individually, but I can not move them all.

 NSError *error;
    NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0]; // Get documents folder
    NSString *dataPath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"user"];

    if (![[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:dataPath])
        [[NSFileManager defaultManager] createDirectoryAtPath:dataPath withIntermediateDirectories:NO attributes:nil error:&error];



    NSString *oldPath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/user/%@", documentsDirectory, fileName];

     NSLog(@"copia de aqui %@", oldPath);
    NSString *newPath = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@/leidos/%@", documentsDirectory, fileName];
     NSLog(@"aqui aqui %@", newPath);

    [[NSFileManager defaultManager] moveItemAtPath:oldPath toPath:newPath error:nil];

Move one file, and then another, and then another? – Hot Licks Dec 16 '14 at 17:21 — Hot Licks, Dec 16 '14 at 17:21

keithbhunter · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-16T18:09:42.717

You could get all the files in the ../user/ directory and store their file names into an array. Then you could loop through the array and move the files to the new directory.

NSString *oldDirectory = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"user"];
NSString *newDirectory = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"leidos"];
NSFileManager *fm = [NSFileManager defaultManager];

// Get all the files at ~/Documents/user
NSArray *files = [fm contentsOfDirectoryAtPath:oldDirectory error:&error];

for (NSString *file in files) {
    [fm moveItemAtPath:[oldDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:file]
                toPath:[newDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:file]
                 error:&differentError];
}

Don't use `stringWithFormat` to build paths. Use `stringByAppendingPathComponent:` and other related methods. — rmaddy, Dec 16 '14 at 18:03

as I can move all files from one directory to another directory in Objective-C?

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