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: ...
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