How to get the file size given a path?

Question

I have a path to file contained in an NSString. Is there a method to get its file size?

Answer 1

If you want only file size with bytes just use,

unsigned long long fileSize = [[[NSFileManager defaultManager] attributesOfItemAtPath:yourAssetPath error:nil] fileSize];

NSByteCountFormatter string conversion of filesize (from Bytes) with precise KB, MB, GB ... Its returns like 120 MB or 120 KB

NSError *error = nil;
NSDictionary *attrs = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] attributesOfItemAtPath:yourAssetPath error:&error];
if (attrs) {
    NSString *string = [NSByteCountFormatter stringFromByteCount:fileSize countStyle:NSByteCountFormatterCountStyleBinary];
    NSLog(@"%@", string);
}

Answer 2

CPU raises with attributesOfItemAtPath:error:
You should use stat.

#import <sys/stat.h>

struct stat stat1;
if( stat([inFilePath fileSystemRepresentation], &stat1) ) {
      // something is wrong
}
long long size = stat1.st_size;
printf("Size: %lld\n", stat1.st_size);

Answer 3

It will give File size in Byte...

uint64_t fileSize = [[[NSFileManager defaultManager] attributesOfItemAtPath:_filePath error:nil] fileSize];

Answer 4

In case some one needs a Swift version:

let attr: NSDictionary = try! NSFileManager.defaultManager().attributesOfItemAtPath(path)
print(attr.fileSize())

Answer 5

Bear in mind that fileAttributesAtPath:traverseLink: is deprecated as of Mac OS X v10.5. Use attributesOfItemAtPath:error: instead, described at the same URL thesamet mentions.

With the caveat that I'm an Objective-C newbie, and I'm ignoring errors that might occur in calling attributesOfItemAtPath:error:, you can do the following:

NSString *yourPath = @"Whatever.txt";
NSFileManager *man = [NSFileManager defaultManager];
NSDictionary *attrs = [man attributesOfItemAtPath: yourPath error: NULL];
UInt32 result = [attrs fileSize];

Answer 6

Following the answer from Oded Ben Dov, I would rather use an object here:

NSNumber * mySize = [NSNumber numberWithUnsignedLongLong:[[[NSFileManager defaultManager] attributesOfItemAtPath:someFilePath error:nil] fileSize]];