How to detect total available/free disk space on t

Question

I'm looking for a better way to detect available/free disk space on the iPhone/iPad device programmatically.
Currently I'm using the NSFileManager to detect the disk space. Following is the snippet of the code which does the job for me:

-(unsigned)getFreeDiskspacePrivate {
NSDictionary *atDict = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] attributesOfFileSystemForPath:@"/" error:NULL];
unsigned freeSpace = [[atDict objectForKey:NSFileSystemFreeSize] unsignedIntValue];
NSLog(@"%s - Free Diskspace: %u bytes - %u MiB", __PRETTY_FUNCTION__, freeSpace, (freeSpace/1024)/1024);

return freeSpace;
}

Am I correct with the above snippet? or is there any better way to know total available/free disk space.
I've to detect total free disk space, since we've to prevent our application to perform sync in the low disk space scenario.

Answer 1

for Swift as UIDevice extension

extension UIDevice {
    func freeDiskspace() -> NSString {
        let failedResult: String = "Error Obtaining System Memory"
        guard let path = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(.DocumentDirectory, NSSearchPathDomainMask.UserDomainMask, true).last else {
            return failedResult
        }
        do {
            let dictionary = try NSFileManager.defaultManager().attributesOfFileSystemForPath(path)
            if let fileSystemSizeInBytes = dictionary[NSFileSystemSize] as? UInt,
                let freeFileSystemSizeInBytes =     dictionary[NSFileSystemFreeSize] as? UInt {
                    return "Memory \(freeFileSystemSizeInBytes/1024/1024) of \(fileSystemSizeInBytes/1024/1024) Mb available."
            } else {
                    return failedResult
            }
        } catch {
            return failedResult
        }
    }
}

How to use:

print("\(UIDevice.currentDevice().freeDiskspace())")

Output will be:

Memory 9656 of 207694 Mb available.

Answer 2

Revised source using unsigned long long:

- (uint64_t)freeDiskspace
{
    uint64_t totalSpace = 0;
    uint64_t totalFreeSpace = 0;

    __autoreleasing NSError *error = nil;  
    NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);  
    NSDictionary *dictionary = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] attributesOfFileSystemForPath:[paths lastObject] error: &error];  

    if (dictionary) {  
        NSNumber *fileSystemSizeInBytes = [dictionary objectForKey: NSFileSystemSize];  
        NSNumber *freeFileSystemSizeInBytes = [dictionary objectForKey:NSFileSystemFreeSize];
        totalSpace = [fileSystemSizeInBytes unsignedLongLongValue];
        totalFreeSpace = [freeFileSystemSizeInBytes unsignedLongLongValue];
        NSLog(@"Memory Capacity of %llu MiB with %llu MiB Free memory available.", ((totalSpace/1024ll)/1024ll), ((totalFreeSpace/1024ll)/1024ll));
    } else {  
        NSLog(@"Error Obtaining System Memory Info: Domain = %@, Code = %d", [error domain], [error code]);  
    }  

    return totalFreeSpace;
}

EDIT: it seems someone edited this code to use 'uint64_t' instead of 'unsigned long long'. While in the foreseeable future this should be just fine, they are not the same. 'uint64_t' is 64 bits and will always be that. In 10 years 'unsigned long long' might be 128. its a small point but why I used unsignedLongLong.

Answer 3

I have written a class to get available/used memory using Swift. Demo at: https://github.com/thanhcuong1990/swift-disk-status
Swift 4 updated.

import UIKit

class DiskStatus {

    //MARK: Formatter MB only
    class func MBFormatter(_ bytes: Int64) -> String {
        let formatter = ByteCountFormatter()
        formatter.allowedUnits = ByteCountFormatter.Units.useMB
        formatter.countStyle = ByteCountFormatter.CountStyle.decimal
        formatter.includesUnit = false
        return formatter.string(fromByteCount: bytes) as String
    }


    //MARK: Get String Value
    class var totalDiskSpace:String {
        get {
            return ByteCountFormatter.string(fromByteCount: totalDiskSpaceInBytes, countStyle: ByteCountFormatter.CountStyle.file)
        }
    }

    class var freeDiskSpace:String {
        get {
            return ByteCountFormatter.string(fromByteCount: freeDiskSpaceInBytes, countStyle: ByteCountFormatter.CountStyle.file)
        }
    }

    class var usedDiskSpace:String {
        get {
            return ByteCountFormatter.string(fromByteCount: usedDiskSpaceInBytes, countStyle: ByteCountFormatter.CountStyle.file)
        }
    }


    //MARK: Get raw value
    class var totalDiskSpaceInBytes:Int64 {
        get {
            do {
                let systemAttributes = try FileManager.default.attributesOfFileSystem(forPath: NSHomeDirectory() as String)
                let space = (systemAttributes[FileAttributeKey.systemSize] as? NSNumber)?.int64Value
                return space!
            } catch {
                return 0
            }
        }
    }

    class var freeDiskSpaceInBytes:Int64 {
        get {
            do {
                let systemAttributes = try FileManager.default.attributesOfFileSystem(forPath: NSHomeDirectory() as String)
                let freeSpace = (systemAttributes[FileAttributeKey.systemFreeSize] as? NSNumber)?.int64Value
                return freeSpace!
            } catch {
                return 0
            }
        }
    }

    class var usedDiskSpaceInBytes:Int64 {
        get {
            let usedSpace = totalDiskSpaceInBytes - freeDiskSpaceInBytes
            return usedSpace
        }
    }

}

Demo

Answer 4

Important clarification (at least for me). If I connect my iPod to my Mac this is the info showed by iTunes App.

When I use the above code:

long long freeSpace = [[[[NSFileManager defaultManager] attributesOfFileSystemForPath:NSHomeDirectory() error:nil]
                            objectForKey:NSFileSystemFreeSize] longLongValue];

NSString *free1 = [NSByteCountFormatter stringFromByteCount:freeSpace countStyle:NSByteCountFormatterCountStyleFile];

[label1 setText:free1];

NSString *free2 = [NSByteCountFormatter stringFromByteCount:freeSpace countStyle:NSByteCountFormatterCountStyleBinary];

[label2 setText:free2];

The countStyle NSByteCountFormatterCountStyleFile show me: 17,41 GB

The countStyle NSByteCountFormatterCountStyleBinary show me: 16,22 GB

16,22 GB (NSByteCountFormatterCountStyleBinary) It is EXACTLY the number that iTunes App show me when I connect my iPod to my Mac.

Answer 5

ChrisJF answer in Swift 2.1 version:

func freeSpaceInBytes() -> NSString{

    var remainingSpace = NSLocalizedString("Unknown", comment: "The remaining free disk space on this device is unknown.")

    do {

        let dictionary =  try NSFileManager.defaultManager().attributesOfFileSystemForPath(NSHomeDirectory())
        freeSpaceSize = (dictionary[NSFileSystemFreeSize]?.longLongValue)!
        remainingSpace = NSByteCountFormatter.stringFromByteCount(freeSpaceSize, countStyle: NSByteCountFormatterCountStyle.File)

    }
    catch let error as NSError {

        error.description
        NSLog(error.description)

    }

    return remainingSpace

}

Answer 6

Don't use 'unsigned', it is only 32 bits which will overflow past 4GB, which is less than the typical iPad/iPhone free space. Use unsigned long long (or uint64_t), and retrieve the value out of the NSNumber as a 64-bit int too using unsignedLongLongValue.