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Technical Q&As: Cocoa
File management consists of storing persistent information on a physical medium and retrieving that information later. Cocoa provides several programming interfaces for gaining access to stored files, folders, and disc recordings. Developers can also create and display dialogs that solicit choices from users when they are opening and saving files.
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Sorting Like the Finder (HTML)
QA1159: Shows how to sort strings like the Finder's list view.
 2004-10-27
Avoiding the -42 error with DiscRecording (HTML)
QA1292: Explains how to workaround the -42 error when using the DiscRecording API.
 2004-05-25
Third party VFS can't unmount on Mac OS X 10.3 (HTML)
QA1308: Describes changes in unmounting behavior for VFS plug-ins under Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther."
 2003-10-23
Developing for VFS (HTML) ()
QA1242: Describes Apple's position on developing external file systems (VFS plug-ins) for Mac OS X.
 2003-03-26
FSSetCatalogInfo versus UID and GID (HTML) ()
QA1251: Describes why FSSetCatalogInfo does not set the UID and GID of the file, and provides a work around.
 2003-03-26