The file “ ” couldn’t be opened because you don’t have permission to view it

Question

I am downloading a file to a folder and I am validating that the file is indeed there in the code, but I am getting the above error. Can someone help me figure out why i don

Answer 1

Your documentsURL is the address of the Documents FOLDER in your app. It is not a FILE that you can get the contents of:

/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/7FA4D6A9-2149-4053-BF08-22E94A00AE34/Documents

Answer 2

Try

fileURL.startAccessingSecurityScopedResource()
//...
fileURL.stopAccessingSecurityScopedResource()