Question

Nothing is written in my plist file after this code. What is wrong with my code?

NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath];
NSString *finalPath = [path stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"aFile.plist"];
NSMutableDictionary *reqData = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithContentsOfFile:finalPath];
/*
some modifications to "reqData"
*/
[reqData writeToFile:finalPath atomically:YES];

Nothing is written in file. what could be the problem?

Answer 1

If you’re including the plist with your application, you’ll want to copy that file into the Documents directly when the app first starts up (if it hasn’t already been copied there). Then, any read and write operations you want to do on the plist should be done from the copy in the Documents directory instead of the version in the app bundle.