Comments on: A little gotcha on Jailbroken iPhones

By: Tony Aldridge

Tony Aldridge — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:37:10 +0000

It’s a cleaner way of getting the path, but the thrust of my post is about the folder not existing/not accessible on Jailbroken phones – when you get the home directory on a Jailbroken phone, regardless of method, it returns somewhere that an app isn’t naturally able to write to, so you’ll need to create and add rights to where it’s pointing.

By: Emanuele Cipolloni

Emanuele Cipolloni — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:15:56 +0000

It is much easier if you use something like this:

#define DOCSFOLDER [NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Documents"]

and then compose your paths like:

NSString *filename_path = [DOCSFOLDER stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"myfile.ext"];

Works in every situation, jailbroken or not, device or simulator, and you don’t rely on absolute array indexes or fixed values.