Re: Path to library folder w/ network home directory?
Re: Path to library folder w/ network home directory?
- Subject: Re: Path to library folder w/ network home directory?
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 09:45:15 -0700
On May 21, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Shandor Simon wrote:
In one of my scripts, I'm trying to get the path to a folder in a
users Library folder. I use the following to do so:
tell application "Finder"
set profilefolders to folder (path to library folder from user
domain as string)
end tell
This works fine on my computers, but fails to find the correct path
on users who have a network mounted home directory. Is there
anything that I can do in that situation?
That script looks essentially correct, though there are two (mostly)
pedantic errors:
- "as string" should be "as Unicode text", or it will choke on paths
that have sufficiently interesting characters. In fact, you don't
need the "as" bit at all; Finder is perfectly happy to work with the
alias that "path to" returns by default.
- As a matter of style, it's widely considered best to put the "path
to" expression outside the "tell" block, though it shouldn't make a
difference in this case.
Aside from that, it looks like it ought to work, and does with my
network home. (Don't read too much into that, though; there are lots
of different kinds of network home directories.) What's the error,
exactly?
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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