Rolf Howarth wrote:
>Is there a simple way to find the startup volume name? I can think of a
>couple of ways using Runtime.exec(): do "ls -l /Volumes" and see what links
>to /,
Or get a File.listFiles() of /Volumes in Java and call getCanonicalPath()
on each File (optional: in a filter object). The one that resolves to "/"
is the startup volume, and you can then use the uncanonical path (i.e. the
pathname of the symlink) as desired.
This won't work before 10.4, which I think is when the "symlink to startup
volume" first appeared. Or maybe it was 10.3. Anyway, if nothing
canonicalizes to "/", I think you're stuck, if the pathname problem is that
serious.
>One thing I'm worried about if I do it myself is whether the "standard"
>directory names are the same in other languages. Will they still be called
>/Users, /Volumes, /System, ~/Library/Preferences etc. if I choose French or
>Japanese as my language when installing Mac OS X?
I'm pretty sure /Volumes is language-independent. I think most of the
things in / are, but I forget where I read that.
That'd be a good question to ask on an i18n Apple list, though. If there
were one. I dunno, maybe someone on Cocoa-dev knows where to look.
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