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I just started with iPhone development. In one of the example where I had to display some data stored in sqlite db in a table view in a tabbar controller, I had to move a sqlite file from application bundle to the documents folder. I used the application template - iOS > Application > Window-based application for iPhone (Used core data for storage) In the template generated by XCode (base sdk set to latest iOS = 4.2), the following code was there... - (NSURL *)applicationDocumentsDirectory { return [[[NSFileManager defaultManager] URLsForDirectory:NSDocumentDirectory inDomains:NSUserDomainMask] lastObject]; } In trying to get a path to documents folder, I used the method given above like this... NSString *documentDirectory = [self applicationDocumentsDirectory]; This gave a warning - warning: incompatible Objective-C types initializing 'struct NSURL *', expected 'struct NSString *' So I changed the code to following... // Added the message absoluteString over here NSString *documentDirectory = [[self applicationDocumentsDirectory] absoluteString]; NSString *writableDBPath = [documentDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"mydb.sqlite"]; NSString *defaultDBPath = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"mydb.sqlite"]; BOOL success = [fileManager copyItemAtPath:defaultDBPath toPath:writableDBPath error:&error]; if (!success) { NSLog(@"Failed to create writable database file with message '%@'.", [error localizedDescription]); } And BOOM!!! It gave the error that - 'Failed to create writable database file with message 'The operation couldn’t be completed. No such file or directory'.' How should I find the path to documents directory since the method applicationDocumentsDirectory generated by XCode template does not work for me. Also, can somebo

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