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Asked: 2026-05-29T20:07:58+00:00

What I wanna do is just accessing to local file system from my iPhone.

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What I wanna do is just accessing to local file system from my iPhone.
I have some files in Library directory.

So, my code is as below.

NSString *dir = @"/Users/MY_ID/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/5.0/Applications/6AB76439-APP-ID-1C1BB92E/Library/test";
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:dir isDirectory:NO];

Then, what I got for the value of url is,

file://localhost/Users/MY_ID/Library/Application%20Support/iPhone%20Simulator/5.0/Applications/6AB76439-APP-ID-1C1BB92E/Library/test

and both iPhone simulator and a real iPhone CANNOT resolve this url.

I think the problem is this part.

file://localhost

because, without that part, I can read file from string.

But, what I need to do is to get the “test” file via NSURL.

Since [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc] initWithContentURL:] method only can read NSURL.

let me read the video file from my local file system.

Thanks!!!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Since this is clearly not useful outside of your local test environment (and hence not portable code anyway), why not just create a “localhost” symlink in the root of your machine?

    ln -s / /localhost

    I wasn’t even aware the MPMoviePlayerViewController could read a file from the local filesystem in this way. For simplicity, why not bundle your movie file into the app or host it on something like dropbox?

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