Apple

Le 17 oct. 2016 à 02:10, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> a écrit :

On 17 Oct. 2016, at 10:08 am, Jim Underwood <email@hidden> wrote:

By "the *true* temp folder", do you mean "/tmp" ?

No -- *true* was a poor choice of word. I didn't mean the standard Unix temp folder -- I meant the temp folder macOS uses. Using a fixed path for such things is regarded as a security risk, hence the use of paths like /private/var/folders/9d/n7rpchy88xlg3b008k8ydqlh0000gn/T/, where some of the components are randomized. (The security angle might well explain the change people are talking about.)

Cocoa has a function for retrieving this path -- NSTemporaryDirectory() -- and I believe it's always in the user domain. Using 'echo $TMPDIR' in Terminal returns the same thing.

use framework "Foundation"
current application's NSTemporaryDirectory() as text

AppleScript seems to be tacking on another component, TemporaryItems, presumably to reduce the risk of overwriting other apps' stuff.

Here's a more up-to-date article, although it too is a couple of years old (based on 10.9): <http://www.magnusviri.com/OS_X_Admin/what-is-var-folders.html>

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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>

use AppleScript version "2.4"

use framework "Foundation"

use scripting additions

set PosixTemp to current application's NSTemporaryDirectory() as text

--> "/var/folders/v2/40_tdtj114gbn1fw4xts8hzh0000gn/T/"

set PosixTemp2 to POSIX path of (path to temporary items from user domain)

--> "/private/var/folders/v2/40_tdtj114gbn1fw4xts8hzh0000gn/T/TemporaryItems/"

References:
	>About path to temporary items. (From: Yvan KOENIG <email@hidden>)
	>Re: About path to temporary items. (From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>)
	>Re: About path to temporary items. (From: Jim Underwood <email@hidden>)
	>Re: About path to temporary items. (From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>)