I think iOS attempts to create the directory first. https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file-transfer/blob/master/src/ios/CDVFileTransfer.m#L660 -James Jong
On Apr 16, 2014, at 2:58 PM, Shazron <[email protected]> wrote: > Additional info: > iOS will not create intermediate folders for download(), they must already > exist > (based on my tests with NSFileManager createFileAtPath:contents:attributes > call that is used by FileTransfer.download()) > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Mike Billau <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> When using FileTransfer.download(), if the target location contains folders >> that do not exist on the device, should FileTransfer auto-magically mkdir >> these folders to save the download? >> >> If target= /foo/image.png, and if /foo/ doesn't exist, Android will create >> the /foo/ dir for you. WP8 doesn't seem to do this and will instead return >> with an error. I don't know which implementation should be considered >> "correct." It seems like a "good" dev should first check that the target >> exists and create it before saving the image, but I'm all for making things >> easier for the developer and just doing it auto-magically (I hate that >> word...) >> >> I'm using 3.1 btw, sigh and sorry! Thanks everyone for your opinions. >>
