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Re: Default Path on OSX
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Re: Default Path on OSX


  • Subject: Re: Default Path on OSX
  • From: Todd Geist <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 13:37:01 -0600

On 6/4/03 10:21 AM, "Michelle Steiner" <email@hidden> wrote:

> tell application "Finder" to set the destination to home
>
> This will return the home folder of the user. If the same file will
> suffice for all the users on the computer, this is probably not the
> best one to use, but if each user needs a personal copy of the file,
> this would probably do it for you.
>
> --Michelle


Thanks Michelle

But that isn't quite going to do it. I wasn't very clear in my earlier
post. Also I have different perspective on the problem.

I need to create a path that appears in the Export Dialog of an application
(in this case FileMaker Pro). When a FileMaker script "saves" an export
step it saves the "Path" So I need to have a path that I can be sure is
always exactly the same on all OSX computers.

I had a thought...

Would be possible to create an alias to a folder and "mount" that alias as a
drive, so it appears at the highest level of the File Dialogs, using
applescript.?

That way I could force the creation of my known path every time I run my
export step in FileMaker.

I must admit I am way out of my depth here. It "feels" like this shoul be
possible, but I don't know how to do it.

Todd


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Todd Geist
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