NSData writeToFile:atomically: doesn't immediately save the file

Question

I\'m downloading an SQLite db from the web into my iPad app. If I write it to disk setting atomically: YES I can\'t immediately use it because even though the f

Answer 1

According to the link, the operation will either write completely or fail.

With that in mind, write atomically on another thread, and then do something like this!

while (![[FileManager defaultFileManager] fileExistsAtPath:yourEventualDBPath]) {

[NSThread sleepForTimeInterval:.5];

}