RE: path to question?
RE: path to question?
- Subject: RE: path to question?
- From: "Goodman, Steve" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 15:57:56 -0500
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path to "my apps" as string
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I get an Execution Error saying:
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Can't make "my apps" into a item.
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It seems to me like this should work?
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Standard Additions 1.6
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Thanks
If your trying to return the path to "The" applications folder then the all
knowing Bill Cheeseman once wrote:
There actually is a Path to Documents Folder command, and a Path to
Applications Folder command, as well. But they're worded a little
differently:
Path to At Ease documents folder
--> alias "Sucia:Documents:"
Path to At Ease applications folder
--> alias "Sucia:Applications (Mac OS 9):"
(My startup disk is named Sucia, after my favorite island (in the San Juans,
in Puget Sound).
I found these using ResEdit. They probably should have been named something
else in Mac OS 9.1, since At Ease has been replaced by what? -- the "File
Manager"? The Standard Additions dictionary describes only a truncated list
of these "special folders", so you have to use a utility like ResEdit to see
all the enumerations that are available.
On a similar note:
Path to users folder
--> alias "Sucia:Users:" -- creates Users folder at root level of startup
disk if it doesn't already exist
I don't have multiple users turned on, which may be why I get an error with
this:
Path to current user folder
--> error at compile time
Can somebody tell me what all four of these statements do when multiple
users is turned on, and when there is more than one user?
These Path To "special folders" also existed in Mac OS 9.0.4 and worked the
same way there. I assume they were introduced in Mac OS 9.
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Bill Cheeseman, Quechee, Vermont <
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Steve Goodman
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