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how to list the content of the trash using objective-c (in a mac)

I am tying to get the content of the trash in a Cocoa application and I was wondering if this is a special path or if I have to use dedicated functions.

Thanks for your help,

Regards,

Solution

  • "Macintosh HD>Users>your username>.Trash" It is hidden to finder but you can locate it in the terminal or otherwise. From then on it is a normal folder and you can do whatever functions you would like to it. Could be done like such

    NSError *error=nil;
NSString *path=[NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:@".Trash"];
NSArray *folderList=[[NSFileManager defaultManager] contentsOfDirectoryAtPath:path error:&error];