BUG: Picking a folder in iOS causes the original folder to be deleted.

[twinkles-twinstar]

Describe the bug
This is a serious bug where users' files are deleted without them noticing. If use file_picker version 5.3.3 or higher, when an ios user picks a directory, the original directory will be deleted (actually, moved to the app's sandbox tmp directory, and the user cannot access them), and file_picker returns a path in tmp directory.
In 5.3.2 and earlier versions, file_picker will return the real absolute path of the original directory.
This BUG looks to be caused by this pull: #1311 (I'm not an ios programmer so I don't know how to fix this bug...), which moves the file or directory pointed to by the original url into the tmp directory; please restore the previous behavior (5.3.2, getting the original absolute path, which is the best, I think ?), or copy the directory to tmp (rather than moving it).

Platform

• Android
• iOS
• Web
• Desktop

Platform OS version
iOS 16.5

How are you picking?

if (Platform.isIOS) {
  var selection = await FilePicker.platform.getDirectoryPath();
  result = selection;
}

Details to reproduce the issue

1. open a directory picker.
2. select a directory.
3. the selected directory was deleted (moved to the <application-sandbox-directory>/tmp directory).
4. file_picker returnd the tmp path.

Error Log
None.

Screenshots and/or video
None.

Flutter Version details
Flutter 3.16, no probrlm.

Additional context
None.

[github-actions]

This issue is stale because it has been open for 14 days with no activity.

[bypass112]

Can conform, I tried to select "AAA" folder and my app crashed with the following error:
“Aaa” couldn’t be moved because you don’t have permission to access “tmp”.
After downgrading to 5.3.2 it works again.

[mateusz-bak]

Observed the same issue on 6.1.1

[github-actions]

This issue is stale because it has been open for 14 days with no activity.

[github-actions]

This issue was closed because it has been inactive for 14 days since being marked as stale.

[mateusz-bak]

Please reopen

[twinkles-twinstar]

I created a fork to fix this issue: twinkles-twinstar/flutter_file_picker .
When the user selects a directory, the picker will return its absolute path (/private/var/....) and will not delete the original directory.
BTW, it seems that it is possible to return the absolute path (/private/var/....) when selecting a file. I don't know if this path can be accessed in swift/objc/dart (I am not an ios developer and don't know much about the filesystem policy for ios), but I was able to operate it using c++ filesystem/fopen, if you need absolute paths, you can imitate my CustomMethodChannel.

[Louis-He]

I think we should reopen this issue since the package is mostly unusable if someone needs to use this plugin to select a folder.

[wonli]

Are there other alternative packages available?