Introduction to Low-Level File Management Programming Topics

Explains the low-level ways Cocoa applications can interact with files.

Organization of This Document

This document contains the following articles:

File Management Classes describes the main classes you use for file-system operations.

Creating Paths and Locating Directories explains how to compose paths used in file-system operations.

File Management describes how you can perform many generic file-system operations.

Information about Files and Volumes describes how you can get and set information about files and volumes.

Using URLs describes how to use NSURL for various file-related operations.

Working with the Contents of a Directory describes how to retrieve the contents of a directory using an NSDirectoryEnumerator object.

Resolving Aliases describes how to resolve aliases in a file path.

File Handle describes the class that provides a wrapper for accessing open files or communications channels.

HFS File Types describes the APIs that allow a Cocoa application to retrieve and create HFS type and creator codes.