Getting path to users Library folder in OS X

Question

I need to open a NSSavePanel with the users Library folder as destination folder. Normally I would do this by entering ~/Library/ in [NSSavePanel beginSheetForDirectory].

This works fine as long as the application is not sandboxed. For sandboxed applications this will result in the NSSavePanel trying to access a folder inside the applications document "box".

I cannot refer to /Users/username/Library/ as I do not know the users username at runtime. So how do I link to this path in cocoa?

Answer 1

I'm not sure how sandboxing fits in with this, but you can find the user's library directory using:

NSArray* paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains( NSLibraryDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES );