Document directory path of Xcode Device Simulator

Question

In iOS 7, the document directory of the iOS simulators can be found in:

/Users/Sabo/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/ 

However, in iOS 8 Beta Simulator, I can't find the corresponding directory for iOS 8 in the directory above.

Where's the document directory path for the iOS 8 Simulator?

Answer 1

on my computer, the path is:

~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/1A8DF360-B0A6-4815-95F3-68A6AB0BCC78/data/Container/Data/Application/ 

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NOTE: probably those long IDs (i.e UDIDs) are different on your computer.

Answer 2

NSLog below code somewhere in "AppDelegate", run your project and follow the path. This will be easy for you to get to the documents rather than searching randomly inside "~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/"

Objective-C

NSLog(@"%@",[[[NSFileManager defaultManager] URLsForDirectory:NSDocumentDirectory inDomains:NSUserDomainMask] lastObject]); 

Swift
If you are using Swift 1.2, use the code below which will only output in development when using the Simulator because of the #if #endif block:

#if arch(i386) || arch(x86_64)   let documentsPath = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, .UserDomainMask, true)[0] as! NSString   NSLog("Document Path: %@", documentsPath) #endif 

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Copy your path from "/Users/ankur/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/7BA821..." go to "Finder" and then "Go to Folder" or command + shift + g and paste your path, let the mac take you to your documents directory :)