Re: Getting the Documents Folder
Re: Getting the Documents Folder
- Subject: Re: Getting the Documents Folder
- From: Phi Sanders <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:52:22 -0500
At ease works all the way up to 8.6 - it's widely used in school settings
to control access to the Mac system folder and applications. It works
pretty well, and has much greater functionality than multiple users under
OS 9 - but hasnt been upgraded, so it looks quite dated and may not work
with newer software.
Back on the topic, I'd like to see "path to home from user domain" added
to the options in the path to command for OS X
"path to desktop from user domain" yields :
"<Boot Volume>:Users:<current user name>:Desktop:"
I'd like to be able to directly get :
"<Boot Volume>:Users:<current user name>:"
~Phi
In a message sent on Thursday, 2002 March, 14 @ 12:20 PM, by Paul Berkowitz :
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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"
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You can do it with
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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
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path to At Ease documents folder
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is the best way if you might be distributing your script to other users,
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since people with non-English language system won't have a "Documents"
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folder by name, and other people may have moved their Documents folder and
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replaced it by an alias, which is a file (no colon), not a folder, and there
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may or may not be problems resolving the alias (I've never been clear on
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that). 'path to At Ease documents folder' will always work, even in OS X.
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> and what is At Ease anyway?
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It was something tried out in OS 7.x and later abandoned. I wasn't scripting
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at the time, and may not even have had a computer yet, so someone else will
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fill in details here, I'm sure.
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--
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Paul Berkowitz
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