How to save images and recorded files in temp directory?

iphone objective-c uiimage nsfilemanager nsfilehandle
alloc_iNit picture alloc_iNit · Jul 30, 2011 · Viewed 19.7k times · Source

I want to store pictures taken from camera and video recordings from my application in a separate folder in temporary directories for a while. And as the task is being completed, they shall be going to save into the database.

How do I save pictures taken from camera & video recording files in a separate folder in temp directories?

Answer

PeyloW picture PeyloW · Jul 30, 2011

You are looking for this to get tot he caches folder to store temporary files:

NSString* path = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSCachesDirectory, 
                                                      NSUserDomainMask,
                                                      YES) lastObject];

From there you can use NSFileManager to create and remove the directories you want. And store files just as to any other part of a file system. Just be aware that the system will purge the caches directory now and then.

So never rely on file remaining, nor disappearing, between restarts of your app.

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