On Nov 28, 2010, at 4:21 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: > On Nov 28, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Ariel Feinerman wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> how to check whether a file is hidden in Finder? There seems file manager >> has no any methods to change file`s visibility like lchflags(). > > There are three different things that can cause a file to be hidden in the > Finder: > > 1. If it has a . at the beginning of its name > 2. If its hidden bit is set (you can check for this using the Carbon file > manager) > 3. If its name comes up inside the .hidden file in the same folder (if such a > file exists) > > And yes, I have a bug open on this asking for a way to do this using > NSFileManager.
As of 10.6, the recommendation is to use NSURL for referencing files and accessing their metadata. In particular, see -getResourceValue:forKey:error:/-setResourceValue:forKey:error: and NSURLIsHiddenKey. Regards, Ken _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) 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 [email protected]
