On 29 Jul 2015, at 8:47 am, Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ultimately, I'm simply trying to delete the asset:
>  [PHAssetChangeRequest deleteAssets:@[asset]];

But you don't yet HAVE an asset; you seem to only have a regular file on disk, 
in an application's Documents directory.  Do you want to do more than simply 
delete the file?  If not, what compels you to turn it into a PHAsset first?

> You're right, of course, that I've overlooked the fine print: it wants an 
> array of “asset URLs previously retrieved from an ALAsset object.” I'm not 
> quite certain what that means, exactly.

No doubt something you would retrieve by -[asset valueForProperty: 
ALAssetPropertyURLs] (if you had an ALAsset * called asset.)  But I imagine 
that's a red herring here.

> I'm able to delete the asset by using:
>  [[NSFileManager defaultManager] removeItemAtURL: self.sourcePlayListItem.url 
> error:&error];
> but I think the new 'photo asset' way is preferred in iOS8+, so I thought I'd 
> try to be compliant.

What inspires that statement?

If you have a PHAsset representing something in a PHAssetLibrary, then sure, 
you would use such an approach to delete the asset.  But what you've shown us 
so far seems to imply that you just have a plain old .MOV file, perhaps created 
by the user, sitting in the app's sandbox.

In your original example, where does self.sourcePlayListItem.url come from?  
What does the URL represent?

b


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