iPhone Simulator base directory

I wanted to know where the iPhone Simulator application was writing files, e.g. after a call to NSArray.writeToFile:atomically:

I figured out that the path is constructed from several variables:

/Users/<name>/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/<version>/Applications/<uuid>

In the previous path just replace the following placeholders:

• <name>
  The name of the current user
• <version>
  The iPhone version the simulator is targeting
• <uuid>
  A universally unique identifier, e.g. FF816B31-D171-4CC1-8E20-B0833229BEDB

In this path you'll typically find a Documents directory, files should go in there ... use the following code to get a reference to that path, the first element points to that directory which should be used as the root of your application's storage:

NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);