FileManager cannot find audio file

Question

Helloo! My ultimate goal is to create a UITableViewController with recordings made in-app, using FileManager to traverse the /Documents/

Answer 1

You cannot save a sandboxed file URL or path string for later use, because the sandbox can move. You need to do what you were doing before, successfully: calculate the documents directory URL and then examine it. You should work entirely with URLs and never call absoluteString at all; it is the wrong call entirely and is letting you down here.

In this example, I check the documents directory for any files whatever:

let documentsDirectory = 
    FileManager.default.urls(for: .documentDirectory, in: .userDomainMask)[0]
let results = 
    try? FileManager.default.contentsOfDirectory(at: documentsDirectory, 
                                                 includingPropertiesForKeys: nil)