fileManager.createFileAtPath always fails

Question

I try to call the fileManager.createFileAtPath-method, but it always fails. My variable success is always false. I looked at some simi

Answer 1

Make sure that you try to create file in folder that already exists. First create folder, then you can create file at that path.

private class func assureDirPathExists(path: String)
{
    if !NSFileManager.defaultManager().fileExistsAtPath(path)
    {
        do {
            try NSFileManager.defaultManager().createDirectoryAtPath(path, withIntermediateDirectories: false, attributes: nil)
        } catch let error as NSError {
            print(error.localizedDescription)
        }
    }
}

Make sure you are writing file relatively to user domain folder.

 // i.e. Caches, Documents...
 let rootPath = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.CachesDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true) 

Probably, you are missing the slash character, or you skip some folder creation first.

If you have ...dir1/dir2/file.ext than you need to create dir1, then dir2 and finally file.ext.