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iosswiftnsfilemanager

NSFileManager.defaultManager().fileExistsAtPath returns false instead of true

How is it possible?

let exists = NSFileManager.defaultManager().fileExistsAtPath(path.absoluteString)
print("exists: \(exists)") //false

This is path.absoluteString

//file:///Users/kuna/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/92BD140D-5C14-43C4-80D6-904BB9594ED6/data/Containers/Data/Application/5B818832-BB19-4047-A7F8-1487F36868D6/Documents/wishlists/68/147/128/IMG_0006.PNG

And you can see it is there where it should be:

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What is going on?

Solution

  • (The code in this answer has been updated for Swift 3 and later.)

    Apparently your path variable is a NSURL (describing a file path). To get the path as a string, use the path property, not absoluteString:

    let exists = FileManager.default.fileExists(atPath: path.path)

    absoluteString returns the URL in a string format, including the file: scheme etc.

    Example:

    let url = URL(fileURLWithPath: "/path/to/foo.txt")

// This is what you did:
print(url.absoluteString)
// Output:    file:///path/to/foo.txt

// This is what you want:
print(url.path)
// Output:    /path/to/foo.txt