On Apr 14, 2011, at 11:38, Mike Abdullah wrote: > > On 14 Apr 2011, at 19:26, Laurent Daudelin wrote: > >> On Apr 14, 2011, at 11:18, Fritz Anderson wrote: >> >>> On 14 Apr 2011, at 12:51 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: >>> >> Is it normal that NSFileManager's isDeletableFileAtPath: returns YES for a >> locked file? Based on the result it returns, when I try to send it a >> removeItemAtPath:error:, it fails and the error localized description is >> '“This is a test.docx” couldn’t be removed because you don’t have permission >> to access it.'. That seems wrong to me. First, isDeletableFileAtPath: >> shouldn't return YES for a locked file. >> >> Not a big problem. I can check if it's writable at path and if it's not, >> then I know the delete won't work but I was wondering if this was the >> expected behavior for NSFileManager isDeletableFileAtPath: ... > > In general, Apple recommends that you go ahead and attempt an operation, > handling any failure, rather than try to see if it will succeed ahead of > time. For many operations/file systems/failures, it is not even possible to > guess at the result without trying the op.
That's a good point, Mike. In my app, I want to provide file operation but try to restrict them if they're going to fail. I still handle the failures in my code but I feel it's a better user experience that they know in advance, for example, that a file is locked and thus I won't be able to delete it or replace it. -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat/Skype:LaurentDaudelin http://www.nemesys-soft.com/ Logiciels Nemesys Software laur...@nemesys-soft.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
