Access to data or documents area to save info on device

Unity Engine
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Hiya,

I used to be bale to store my save game data inside a TXT file in the apps Documents directory, but since upgrading to Unity iPhone 1.6 I get the follow error when trying this…

Unhandled Exception: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path "/var/mobile/Applications/D82DA52A-7F0C-431D-8DA1-5B6A9E87E521/circuitdefenders.app/Data/SaveGame.txt" is denied.

I get the same if I try the Documents folder too… So, where can we now save our game data?

Also tried…

Unhandled Exception: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path "/var/mobile/Applications/5B155FED-4B20-46F6-A8FB-9AE18A3D1F2B/circuitdefenders.app/Data/Documents/SaveGame.txt".

and

Unhandled Exception: System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path "/var/mobile/Applications/5B155FED-4B20-46F6-A8FB-9AE18A3D1F2B/circuitdefenders.app/Documents/SaveGame.txt".
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Ok, so it looks like now with the *.app appname being appended to the Application.dataPath string now I have to strip it back off myself to get back to the old Application.dataPath string?

Hrm, couldn’t this Application.dataPath var be left alone and a new one added like Application.dataPathFull ?

Seems to break functioning code for no real good reason.

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The old way was wrong, and the change is noted, so I don’t have any objection to it.

–Eric

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So which folder can be used to store (write/read) files?

Mitec

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the applications document folder

6

Can you please write some example?

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the reason is called “Apple guidelines”. This change has been put to the what’s new list and to the documentation. Sorry if that caused you troubles.

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no time right now but you can read about it at UIKit | Apple Developer Documentation

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Thanks Dreamora, that should help :slight_smile:

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Currently ‘Application.dataPath’ for iPhone returns:

/<AppName.app>/Data

I vote that it be changed to return:

/Documents

The way it is now just means you need to do a lot of string manipulation just to get the correct directory.

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Your link seems to be broken.

However I found those sources looking for a solution of the same problem.

The blog from where I found the solution

The solution link referred by Harald Vogl