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# getUserVisibleURL(for:completionHandler:)

Returns the user-visible URL for an item.

```
func getUserVisibleURL(for itemIdentifier: NSFileProviderItemIdentifier, completionHandler: @escaping @Sendable (URL?, (any Error)?) -> Void)
```

## Parameters

`itemIdentifier`

The item’s identifier.

`completionHandler`

A block that the system calls after determining the item’s URL. The system passes the following parameters:

- `userVisibleFile`: The URL of the user visible file, or `nil` if an error occurs.
- `error`: If an error occurs, this object contains information about the error; otherwise, it’s `nil`.

## Discussion

> Important:
> You can call this method from synchronous code using a completion handler, as shown on this page, or you can call it as an asynchronous method that has the following declaration:
> 
> ```swift
> func getUserVisibleURL(for itemIdentifier: NSFileProviderItemIdentifier) async throws -> URL
> ```
> 
> For information about concurrency and asynchronous code in Swift, see <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Swift/calling-objective-c-apis-asynchronously>.

Calling this method marks the process so that accessing the URL won’t materialize the item. Instead, any attempt to read or write to an unmaterialized item fails with a <doc://com.apple.documentation/documentation/Foundation/POSIXError/EDEADLK> POSIX error.

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