What's the best way to find the user's Documents directory on an iPhone?

Question

I'm reading Erica Sadun's iPhone Developer's Cookbook, and ran into a question.

She says in the book that the way to find the user's Documents directory is with the code:

[NSHomeDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"Documents"];

but that seems slightly brittle, and dissimiliar to the normal Mac way of doing it, which would be:

NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSLibraryDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);

Are there any particular reasons to use one over the other?

Answer 1

NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES) is the suggested method.

Answer 2

Here is the code that I use in my framework.

  NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
  NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];