Question

I’m currently using NSFileManager setAttributes to change the permission of a directory. My problem is that it doesn’t appear to do so recursively. Is there any way to force it to do so?

Answer 1

I don’t think there’s a built-in method to do this, but it shouldn’t be hard to do something like:

NSString *path = @"/The/root/directory";
NSDictionary *attributes;   // Assume that this is already setup


NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
NSArray *subPaths = [fileManager subpathsAtPath:path];
for (NSString *aPath in subPaths) {
    BOOL isDirectory;
    [fileManager fileExistsAtPath:aPath isDirectory:&isDirectory];
    if (isDirectory) {
        // Change the permissions on the directory here
        NSError *error = nil;
        [fileManager setAttributes:attributes ofItemAtPath:aPath error:&error];
        if (error) {
            // Handle the error
        }
    }
}

This is untested, but should give you a starting point.