Re: Creating a folder on the desktop
Re: Creating a folder on the desktop
- Subject: Re: Creating a folder on the desktop
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:22:15 -0500
- Thread-topic: Creating a folder on the desktop
On 9/7/05 15:04, "has" <email@hidden> wrote:
>> If you keep returning "Stuff 7/9", you're going to
>> make building paths a more painful business.
>
> Only because AppleScript doesn't have a standard library worth a damn. Any
> language worth its salt would provide a whole set of POSIX path manipulation
> commands making trivial stuff like this a complete non-issue. Besides which,
> working with HFS path strings is hardly a great idea given their inability to
> distinguish between multiple drives of the same name. Dunno about you, but I'd
> take the minor inconvenience of calling an 'escape' command over writing
> fundamentally unreliable code any day.
That's going to fall apart with posix too I think.
/Volumes/firewiredrive/
/Volumes/firewiredrive/
I think at that point you have to go into the Unix device designations, and
that sucks regardless of path semantics, especially because on OS X, those
are utterly unreliable.
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