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Re: Result of Finder's POSIX path of (home as text) ends in slash?
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Re: Result of Finder's POSIX path of (home as text) ends in slash?


  • Subject: Re: Result of Finder's POSIX path of (home as text) ends in slash?
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:48:37 -0500

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Jerry Krinock <email@hidden> wrote:
> When I run the following script on my Mac,
>
>   tell application "Finder" to set posixHome to POSIX path of (home as text)
>
> I get:
>
>   "/Users/jk/"
>
> And about a dozen other people around the world have used this script and
> gotten the same result.

Wow, so all your customers have to have a login of "jk"?  That seems
kinda restrictive. ;-)

FWIW, I get the slash on my system, too.  (10.5.5)

 Is it possible that the customer's home directory is a symbolic link
or alias?  Those confuse the heck out of the Finder OMM.



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