How to delete ALL FILES in a specified directory on the app?

Question

Given a directory [[self documentsDirectory] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Photos/"] how do I delete ALL FILES in this folder?

(assume a correct documents directory path)

Answer 1

NSFileManager *fm = [NSFileManager defaultManager]; NSString *directory = [[self documentsDirectory] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Photos/"]; NSError *error = nil; for (NSString *file in [fm contentsOfDirectoryAtPath:directory error:&error]) {     BOOL success = [fm removeItemAtPath:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@", directory, file] error:&error];     if (!success || error) {         // it failed.     } } 

I leave it up to you to do something useful with the error if it exists.

Answer 2

if you want to remove files and the directory itself then use it without for loop

NSFileManager *fm = [NSFileManager defaultManager]; NSString *directory = [[self documentsDirectory] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Photos"]; NSError *error = nil; BOOL success = [fm removeItemAtPath:cacheImageDirectory error:&error]; if (!success || error) {     // something went wrong }