Returning list of files in directory not working.

Question

Gidday
I'm using the following code to try to put a listing of files in a dir into an array.
I created a dir call myDir in the same place as my .swf and .air, and placed a file in it.  But I get error messages telling me the File or directory does not exist.
Why would this be?
var dir:File = File.desktopDirectory.resolvePath("myDir");
var files:Array = dir.getDirectoryListing();
Thanks for taking a look.

Answer 1

OK (still trying to get my head around the folder structure)
Say my project exe is called test.exe, and  I also have a folder called image_files and another called text_files - how do I access the image_files folder, and how do I write txt documents to the text_files folder?  In other words, I don't want to access the user's folder, or the application storage folder, just specific folders that I have set up in my Flash as3 project.
Or does security prevent accessing and writing to such folders?
So how would I alter the following code to write to the text_files folder?
function saveHandler(event:Event):void {
var file:File = File.applicationStorageDirectory.resolvePath( "myjot.txt" );
var jot:String = taEditor.text;
var stream:FileStream = new FileStream();
stream.open( file, FileMode.WRITE );
stream.writeMultiByte( jot, File.systemCharset );
stream.close();
I want the user to be able to copy image and video files to the image_files folder, and then I have access to these in the air app.  So I don't want to put them in the application Storage Directory because A) like you said, it's not designed for large amounts of data, and B) I don't want the user to have to navigate to the app data folder - I want to keep navigation simple - so program files/my app/image_files (or preferably give them the option of choosing the folder where they copy their image and video files to - so it could be on d) drive for example).
Thanks for your time and help
Shaun