Re: Getting the Documents Folder
Re: Getting the Documents Folder
- Subject: Re: Getting the Documents Folder
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:20:28 -0800
On 3/14/02 8:57 AM, "Gnarlodious" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I want to eliminate naming my Startup Disk.
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Now I am saying:
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tell application "Finder"
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set identityList to every folder of folder ,
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"Apple:Documents:Microsoft User Data:Identities:";
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But isn't there a way to say:
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path to Startup Disk & "Documents"
You can do it with
alias ((path to startup disk as string) & "Documents:")
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or do I need:
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Path to At Ease Folder
path to At Ease documents folder
is the best way if you might be distributing your script to other users,
since people with non-English language system won't have a "Documents"
folder by name, and other people may have moved their Documents folder and
replaced it by an alias, which is a file (no colon), not a folder, and there
may or may not be problems resolving the alias (I've never been clear on
that). 'path to At Ease documents folder' will always work, even in OS X.
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and what is At Ease anyway?
It was something tried out in OS 7.x and later abandoned. I wasn't scripting
at the time, and may not even have had a computer yet, so someone else will
fill in details here, I'm sure.
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Paul Berkowitz
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