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Re: Making a folder in the user's library
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Re: Making a folder in the user's library


  • Subject: Re: Making a folder in the user's library
  • From: Reinhold Penner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 15:54:06 -1000

On Friday, Apr 4, 2003, at 15:22 Pacific/Honolulu, John Delacour wrote:

At 5:11 pm -0800 4/4/03, Christopher Nebel wrote:

It's "path to", not the Finder, that knows about the various special folders. Unfortunately, the user's download folder isn't one of them. The known folders are defined by the Folder Manager API; for a reasonably complete list, see Folders.h in my iDisk.

Yes, but it's easy enough to get the folder from com.apple.internetconfig.plist using 'defaults' in the shell, isn't > it.

Well, I have tried, but it's a jungle out there. I couldn't see an easy way to parse that xml file...

Can you remind us how?

This is a real challenge and I don't think it can be done.

-Reinhold
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