Re: (9.2.2) Path To...
Re: (9.2.2) Path To...
- Subject: Re: (9.2.2) Path To...
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:36:52 -0700
On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 08:05 AM, Steve Thompson wrote:
path to temporary items
--> alias "Steve:Temporary Items:"
Erm, no. Why is it the one I need to use is the one that returns the
wrong
result?
Then I realised - "Temporary Items" isn't a standard Apple folder. So
why
can I query the path to a folder that doesn't exist and get an
incorrect
path back? Is it a variable I can set (which would be nice). Or should
I use
Application Support for dumping temporary files in?
Why do you say this is wrong and non-standard? The "temporary items"
folder has been well-defined for some time (at least Mac OS 8), and
that's where it's always been.
To answer your follow-up questions, "path to" is defined to create the
requested folder if it doesn't exist; no, you can't change where the
system thinks standard folders are; and Temporary Items is the right
place for temporary files -- Application Support is for stuff you
expect to stick around, e.g., plug-ins.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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