Can an iOS app read files saved in another app's "Documents" directory?

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I was thinking of writing a small app to allow me to copy and edit photos that are saved by one of my third-party camera apps. The app saves its photos in its "Documents" directory. Can I access this from my app, see the files, and copy them over to my app's Documents directory?


ios 5, sdk 1.8 RC1, os 10.7

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Steve, No this can not be done... the reason is Apple "sandboxes" all applications to prevent anyone doing this... For this reason people hack/jailbreak their phones so they can install apps that are able to do this kind of thing.

So not a limitation in titanium, but rather of the platform (iOS)

As far as I know, this is not possible. Each app is sandboxed on iOs so you cannot access the stored content of other apps.

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