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Leopard Reference: Carbon
File management consists of storing persistent information on a physical medium and retrieving that information later. Carbon provides several programming interfaces for gaining access to stored files, folders, and disc recordings. Developers can also create and display dialogs that solicit choices from users when they are opening and saving files.

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Audio File Services Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes a C programming interface for reading and writing audio files.
2008-07-08
Disc Recording Framework Reference (HTML)
Describes the Objective-C and C API for burning audio and data CDs and DVDs.
2008-04-08
Disc Recording UI Framework Reference (HTML)
Describes the Objective-C and C API for presenting a user interface when burning audio and data CDs and DVDs.
2008-04-08
Resource Manager Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the C API for accessing information stored in resource files.
2007-10-31
File Manager Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the C API for basic file management tasks, such as opening and saving files.
2007-07-13
CFFileDescriptor Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes an object for monitoring file descriptors for read and write activity.
2007-05-23
Spotlight Metadata Attributes Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes metadata attributes used with Spotlight.
2007-05-22
Alias Manager Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the C API for creating and managing persistent references to file system objects.
2006-12-05
Finder Interface Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes several C data types used by the Finder to contain information about file system objects.
2006-10-31
Navigation Services Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the C API for presenting a user interface for opening, saving, and navigating files.
2006-08-16
Launch Services Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes an API for opening documents, other applications, and URLs, in a way similar to the Finder or the Dock.
2006-07-13
MDLineage Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the interface for tracking versions of a file.
2006-07-13
Spotlight Reference Collection (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the API used to define Apple's desktop search technology, Spotlight.
2006-07-13
URL Access Manager Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Deprecated - Describes the legacy C API for transferring data to and from a URL from within an application. Replaced by CFNetwork.
2006-07-13
Folder Manager Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the C API for finding and accessing directories, including common Mac OS X system locations.
2006-07-12
Translation Manager Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the C API for handling data and documents between applications, including applications from another operating system.
2006-07-12
MDItem Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the metadata attributes for a file.
2006-06-28
MDQuery Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes a metadata query.
2005-06-04
MDImporter Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the plug-in architecture and callbacks required by a document metadata importer.
2005-04-29
MDSchema Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes a metadata schema.
2005-04-29