Keep App directory the same when building for iPhone Simulator?

Question

I\'m building an iPhone app, and my app copies a bunch of resources to the App\'s Documents directory on first install. While I\'m developing the app, I simply modify files in t

Answer 1

I never did find a way to do this using the app guid, but ultimately I did find a work around. All I did was put all my references to the applications installation directory into a function, and change that function so if I'm running in the simulator, it returns a hard coded directory on my system.... That way the directory would always stay the same even if I reinstall the app, so I can edit my files without losing them when I do a build.

+(NSString *) appDocsDir
{
#if TARGET_IPHONE_SIMULATOR

        NSString* result = @"/Users/brad/ezappdir";
#else

        NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, 
                                                             NSUserDomainMask, 
                                                             YES); 
        NSString* result = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
#endif

    return result;
}