iOS Saving file in iPhone Simulator

[xArtx]

Hi Guys
It’s been some years since I did any iOS software, but I remember I never saved a file
within the iOS Simulator in Xcode, even though I have an App that saves to Documents in the real iPhone.

Was this just because I never figured it out. or actually isn’t possible?
I don’t want to write any App now, but I do have my old software working,
and I’d like to do a program just to write a file, and get it out of the Simulator if possible.

I could use NSlog to copy it out of the debug window, but the file will contain data that is not just ASCII.
Cheers, Art.

 

[imk_87]

All files that you created in Simulator are stored on Mac of course. Here you have example of path to the main directory of application
/Users/mkowalski/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/314DCE38-1B48-4FD7-97B3-5816444C6FCA/data/Containers/Data/Application/45F309B1-E3DD-478B-AB57-B2C3B8C5AA81

 

[xArtx]

Thanks for the reply No wonder I never found them

 

[PhoneyDeveloper]

Whenever starting a new app I add a few lines to the app delegate to print out the full path to the Documents folder and the app sandbox. It usually also prints a few other general bits of info like the OS version. It only prints in Debug builds. I leave that code in there permanently. Then if I later want to view a file that was written out I enter something in the Terminal like

open "/Users/mkowalski/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/314DCE38-1B48-4FD7-97B3-5816444C6FCA/data/Containers/Data/Application/45F309B1-E3DD-478B-AB57-B2C3B8C5AA81"

and the folder opens in Finder.

 

[xArtx]

Hello again, I have finally gotten to it.
Could you share how you get the path to NSlog please?

The program confirms that it wrote a directory, and a file of a specific name inside it,
but I still can’t find it.

EDIT.. can’t delete post.
Never mind, I thought printing the path would just be a Documents directory like an iphone would, but it does give the full path.

 

[firewood]

From the iOS Simulator, you can read or write anywhere in the macOS file system for which you have standard user access permissions. For instance: "/Users/myUserName/Documents/foo.txt" or "/tmp/datadump.bin"
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The program confirms that it wrote a directory, and a file of a specific name inside it,
but I still can’t find it.

Give it a unique file name. Spotlight Search can then easily find it.