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No way to create-or-open file from path?
There is IFileSystem.GetFileFromPathAsync(), but if the file doesn't exist it returns null - there is no way to have it create the file.
There is IFolder.CreateFileAsync(), which has an option to open the file if it already exists, but in order to call it you need the IFolder first. You could load that using IFileSystem.GetFolderFromPathAsync() if you knew the folder's path, but if you only know the file's path you're out of luck - there is no way to obtain the folder path given the file path (I would expect that to be a method in PortablePath, but no such method exists).
Given how extremely common of a use-case this is, this seems like a huge gap in the API.
I'm new with this library, but what's wrong with using System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName("path_to_file")? It seems to work just fine, for me.
It's been a long time since I posted this, but I'm very familiar with System.IO.Path, so I'm certain I would have tried that and it didn't work, for whatever reason.
Well, the library is open-source..... Nothing wrong with coding up what you need and then issuing a pull-request, I suppose. I'm considering doing the same thing as the library seems to lack a few things that I would like, as well.