How to get the file size given a path?

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

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Solution 1 - Objective C

This one liner can help people:

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

This returns the file size in Bytes.

Solution 2 - Objective C

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];

Solution 3 - Objective C

In case some one needs a Swift version:

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

Solution 4 - Objective C

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10580422/cpu-raises-with-attributesofitematpatherror
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);

Solution 5 - Objective C

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);
}

Solution 6 - Objective C

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]];

Solution 7 - Objective C

Swift 2.2:

do {
    let attr: NSDictionary = try NSFileManager.defaultManager().attributesOfItemAtPath(path)
    print(attr.fileSize())
} catch {
        print(error)
}

Solution 8 - Objective C

It will give File size in Byte...

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

Solution 9 - Objective C

Swift4:

        let attributes = try! FileManager.default.attributesOfItem(atPath: path)
        let fileSize = attributes[.size] as! NSNumber

Solution 10 - Objective C

In Swift 3.x and above you can use:

do {
    //return [FileAttributeKey : Any]
    let attr = try FileManager.default.attributesOfItem(atPath: filePath)
    fileSize = attr[FileAttributeKey.size] as! UInt64

    //or you can convert to NSDictionary, then get file size old way as well.
    let attrDict: NSDictionary = try FileManager.default.attributesOfItem(atPath: filePath) as NSDictionary
    fileSize = dict.fileSize()
} catch {
    print("Error: \(error)")
}

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