Attaching .mov to MFMailComposeViewController

Question

I want to send .mov file via email. So I am using MFMailComposeViewController. After spending some time for searching I finally wrote below code.

NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *myPathDocs =  [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:
                                     [NSString stringWithFormat:@"/Saved Video/%@",[player.contentURL lastPathComponent]]];
MFMailComposeViewController *mail = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
mail.mailComposeDelegate = self;
[mail addAttachmentData:[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:myPathDocs]] mimeType:@"video/quicktime" fileName:[myPathDocs lastPathComponent]];
[mail setSubject:@"Share VIDEO by My App"];
[self presentViewController:mail animated:YES completion:nil]; 

When Mail composer appears I can see attachment in the mail body but I receive this mail without attachment.
Am I missing something? or Doing something wrong?

Please help me.

Answer 1

You aren't getting the data for the file correctly.

The first step is to split up your code so it's more readable and far easier to debug. Split this line:

[mail addAttachmentData:[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:myPathDocs]] mimeType:@"video/quicktime" fileName:[myPathDocs lastPathComponent]];

into these:

NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL URLWithString:myPathDocs];
NSData *fileData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:fileURL];
[mail addAttachmentData:fileData mimeType:@"video/quicktime" fileName:[myPathDocs lastPathComponent]];

Now when you debug this code you will find that fileData is nil. fileURL will also be nil (or at least an invalid URL).

Change this line:

NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL URLWithString:myPathDocs];

to:

NSURL *fileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:myPathDocs];

You need to do this since myPathDocs is a file path, not a URL string.

Also, you should fix how you build myPathDocs. Instead of:

NSString *myPathDocs =  [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:
                             [NSString stringWithFormat:@"/Saved Video/%@",[player.contentURL lastPathComponent]]];

You should do something like:

NSString *myPathDocs = [[documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Saved Video"] stringByAppendingPathComponent:[player.contentURL lastPathComponent]];