Re: Where am I?
Re: Where am I?
- Subject: Re: Where am I?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:22:23 -0700
Title: Re: Where am I?
On 9/30/04 6:45 AM, "email@hidden" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to write a script that will access a document in a uniform location
> (foler 'database' in folder 'documents') on several computers. It does not
> work
> over a network but is triggered on the local computer. Is there a way to do
> this without going through the hoops of capturing the locale and setting the
> location to this?
If you mean the standard Documents folder in the user folder in /Users, then you find that by
path to documents folder
(at least since OS 10.3. Otherwise use
path to "docs"
which works everywhere.)
To get just the text file path, it's
path to "docs" as Unicode text
So if the location will _always_ be a folder called "Database" within that folder, that's
alias ((path to "docs" as Unicode text) & "Documents:")
To prevent the script from working i the event that someone has renamed or moved the folder, do this:
try
set databaseFolder to alias ((path to "docs" as Unicode text) & "Documents:")
on error -- it's not there
set databaseFolder to choose folder with prompt "Where is your Database folder?"
end try
You can save the result or the file path, as a script property so the person with the wayward folder isn't asked every time.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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