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Re: Finding startup volume name?

>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.

Thanks for the suggestion. This was actually a red herring, I don't need the startup volume name after all. The problem is that QuickTime wants a URL of the form file://Users/rolf/file.mov rather than file:///Users/rolf/..

I think three slashes in the URL is correct (if you're omitting the host name) but QuickTime doesn't like that. I must have lost one in the process of prepending the volume name and that's what suddenly made it work.

-Rolf
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Rolf Howarth
Square Box Systems Ltd
Stratford-upon-Avon UK.
http://www.squarebox.co.uk
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