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Chapter 2 - File Manager / File Manager Reference

File ID Routines / Resolving File ID References

PBResolveFileIDRef

You can use the PBResolveFileIDRef function to retrieve the filename and parent directory ID of the file with a specified file ID.

FUNCTION PBResolveFileIDRef (paramBlock: HParmBlkPtr; 
                              async: Boolean): OSErr;

paramBlock

A pointer to an fidParam variant of the HFS parameter block.

async

A Boolean value that specifies asynchronous (TRUE) or synchronous (FALSE) execution.

-->	ioCompletion	ProcPtr	A pointer to a completion routine.
<--	ioResult	OSErr	The result code of the function.
<->	ioNamePtr	StringPtr	A pointer to a filename.
-->	ioVRefNum	Integer	A volume specification.
<--	ioSrcDirID	LongInt	The file's parent directory ID.
-->	ioFileID	LongInt	A file ID.

DESCRIPTION

The PBResolveFileIDRef function returns the filename and parent directory ID of the file referred to by file ID in the ioFileID field. It places the filename in the string pointed to by the ioNamePtr field and the parent directory ID in the ioSrcDirID field. If the name string is NIL, PBResolveFileIDRef returns only the parent directory ID. If the name string is not NIL but is only a volume name, PBResolveFileIDRef ignores the value in the ioVRefNum field, uses the volume name instead, and overwrites the name string with the filename. A return code of fidNotFoundErr means that the specified file ID reference has become invalid, either because the file was deleted or because the file ID reference was destroyed by PBDeleteFileIDRef.

ASSEMBLY-LANGUAGE INFORMATION

The trap macro and routine selector for PBResolveFileIDRef are

Trap macro	Selector
_HFSDispatch	$0016

RESULT CODES

noErr	0	No error
nsvErr	-35	Volume not found
ioErr	-36	I/O error
fnfErr	-43	File not found
paramErr	-50	Function not supported by volume
volOfflinErr	-53	Volume is offline
extFSErr	-58	External file system
wrgVolTypErr	-123	Not an HFS volume
fidNotFoundErr	-1300	File ID not found
notAFileErr	-1302	Specified file is a directory
afpAccessDenied	-5000	User does not have the correct access
afpObjectTypeErr	-5025	Specified file is a directory
afpIDNotFound	-5034	File ID not found
afpBadIDErr	-5039	File ID not found