iPhone iOS saving data obtained from UIImageJPEGRepresentation() fails second time: ImageIO: CGImageRead_mapData 'open' failed

Question

I\'m running into a weird issue with my UIImage manipulation.

I\'m doing a dropbox sync, and have to store my images as local files. To do so, I save them using the

Answer 1

I've run into something similar before. It looked like imageWithContentsOfFile kept the file open as long as the UIImage it was used to create was still alive. At the time, I had gotten around the problem by reading the file into a NSData and then creating the UIImage from the NSData instead of the file directly.