NSFileManager delete contents of directory

Question

How do you delete all the contents of a directory without deleting the directory itself? I want to basically empty a folder yet leave it (and the permissions) intact.

Answer 1

The documentation for contentsOfDirectoryAtPath:error: says:

The search is shallow and therefore does not return the contents of any subdirectories. This returned array does not contain strings for the current directory (“.”), parent directory (“..”), or resource forks (begin with “._”) and does not traverse symbolic links.

Thus:

---( file != @"." && file != @".." )---

is irrelevant.