This answer says to use LSCopyKindStringForURL(), which has worked great in the past, but it's marked "deprecated" in OS X v10.11.
There's no mention in the API documentation of why it was deprecated. I don't see any mention of Launch Services API changes in the OS X 10.11 release notes at all.
How are you supposed to get the Finder Kind of a file now?
If you go to the declaration of LSCopyKindStringForURL()
in the header (/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Headers/LSInfoDeprecated.h
), you'll find in the comment and the deprecation attribute, the following:
Use the URL resource property kCFURLLocalizedTypeDescriptionKey or NSURLLocalizedTypeDescriptionKey instead.
These are resource keys for use with CFURLCopyResourcePropertyForKey()
or -[NSURL getResourceValue:forKey:error:]
, respectively.