Question

- (IBAction)sendMessage:(id)sender
{
    NSString* conversationFile = [@"~/" stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"conversation.txt"];
    BOOL fileExists = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:conversationFile];

    if (fileExists == FALSE)
    {
        [self doShellScript:@"do shell script \"cd ~/; touch conversation.txt\""];
    }

    NSString *conversationContent = [[NSString alloc] stringWithContentsOfFile:@"~/conversation.txt" encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:NULL];
    NSString *myMessage = [[messageBox stringValue]copy];

    NSString *combinedContent = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ \r\n %@", conversationContent, myMessage];
    [[[myConversationBox textStorage] mutableString] setString: combinedContent];
    [combinedContent writeToFile:@"~/conversation.txt" atomically:YES encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:NULL];

}

The above code presents the following error

2011-07-07 21:38:08.703
iMessages[86493:903]
-[NSPlaceholderString stringWithContentsOfFile:encoding:error:]:
unrecognized selector sent to instance
0x100111690

2011-07-07 21:38:08.704
iMessages[86493:903]
-[NSPlaceholderString stringWithContentsOfFile:encoding:error:]:
unrecognized selector sent to instance
0x100111690

Answer 1

stringWithContentsOfFile:encoding:error: is a class method of NSString, not an instance method, so you don’t need to (shouldn’t) alloc it first.

NSString *conversationContent = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:@"~/conversation.txt" encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:NULL];