I want to be able to select a folder and show its contents in the Finder. I have managed to select the folder itself and select a file within the folder. But I don't know how to show the contents of an empty folder.
e.g.
Folder A/Folder B
I want to display the contents of folder Folder B (which could be empty).
I have written the following code:
func showFolder(fileName : String)
{
var dataPath = homeDirectory.stringByAppendingPathComponent(fileName)
var urlPath = NSURL(fileURLWithPath: dataPath)
var selectedURLs = [urlPath!]
NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace().activateFileViewerSelectingURLs(selectedURLs)
}
This only opens Folder A with Folder B highlighted. This is very close, but not quite right.
I need to be able to open Folder B with nothing highlighted. I'm obviously using the wrong command.
Use the selectFile
method and pass nil
as first argument and the path to the folder to be shown as second argument.
NSWorkspace.shared.selectFile(nil, inFileViewerRootedAtPath: "/Users/")
Swift 2.1 code to Launch OS X Finder
Use the selectFile
or activateFileViewerSelectingURLs
to select files.
Select 1 item in finder with path YOUR_PATH_STRING
NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace().selectFile(YOUR_PATH_STRING, inFileViewerRootedAtPath: "")
The second param use empty string, if you specify an empty string "" for this parameter, the file is selected in the main viewer.
If you want to select 1 or more files use activateFileViewerSelectingURLs(_ fileURLs: [NSURL])
To select one file
NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace().activateFileViewerSelectingURLs([NSURL].init(arrayLiteral: NSURL.init(fileURLWithPath: YOUR_PATH_STRING)))
To select multiple files
let urls : [NSURL] = [NSURL.init(fileURLWithPath: "/Users/USER_NAME/Pictures"),
NSURL.init(fileURLWithPath: "/Users/USER_NAME/Music")]
If you provide item that are not in the same folder more windows selecting the specified files are open.
let urls : [NSURL] = [NSURL.init(fileURLWithPath: "/Users/USER_NAME/Pictures"),
NSURL.init(fileURLWithPath: "/Users/USER_NAME/Music"),
NSURL.init(fileURLWithPath: "/Users")]