> On Mar 29, 2015, at 10:51 PM, Daryle Walker <dary...@mac.com> wrote: > >> An idea... move the destination file, if it exists, to the trash. >> See NSFileManager's trashItemAtURL:resultingItemURL:error: to do that in a >> safe manner. Trash the old file then save the new. > > That was one of my suggestions. Sometimes, when I trash something when a long > trash-emptying is already happening, a warning alert appears that says the > newly trashed file will be directly deleted instead. I wonder if that alert > still gets displayed when the trashing is programmatically instigated. That > would be a surprise to the user since my program is a command-line tool > (which may be called from a script someday).
I would not expect an alert, but I'm just guessing. What I would expect is an error return. Shouldn't be too hard to create a very large Trash and and some test code to see what happens in that situation. _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
