Question

I have an Mac Application, and when I launch it the first time, a file should be copied. Is there a way to do this?

I can do a “Build Phase” in Xcode that looks like this:

Type:          Copy files
Destination:   Absolute Path
Subpath:       /Local/Targetfolder

But this does not seem to copy the desired file, when running the app. If possible I don’t want to create an Installer for my Application.

Edit: I should note that my Application depends on the copied file (Yes, yes I know!). So I can’t do this in Code because the App would crash otherwise.

Answer 1

How about just (in your code) doing something like;

if ( [[NSFileManager defaultManager] isReadableFileAtPath:source] &&
    ![[NSFileManager defaultManager] isReadableFileAtPath:destination])
    [[NSFileManager defaultManager] copyItemAtURL:source toURL:destination error:nil];

That should just plain copy the file if it’s missing.