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Re: How to get icon of special folder (like /Applications or /Library)?

Subject: Re: How to get icon of special folder (like /Applications or /Library)?
From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:02:02 -0500
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On Oct 16, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Alexander Shmelev wrote:

On Mac OS X many special folders have their own personal icons. For example "/Applications" have capital letter "A" on generic folder icon.

I have some path which leads to some special folder. How can I determine what icon this folder have? Path is stored in NSString.

In general, to get the icon for any item in the file system, you can use:

	[[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] iconForFile:pathToTheFile]

Also, just in case, you should not hard-code "/Applications" or any other path to a special folder in your code. You should use NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains or FSFindFolder to determine the path to a special folders at run time.

Cheers,
Ken

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