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Re: pathnames in Tiger not showing volume name
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Re: pathnames in Tiger not showing volume name


  • Subject: Re: pathnames in Tiger not showing volume name
  • From: Dominik Pich <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:38:37 +0100

you can look at cocoatech's frameworks the reimplement the whole NSFileManager in a way :D
Still..... Better that than pure carbon IMHO! :D


On Jan 30, 2008, at 11:10 PM, Herb Petschauer wrote:

So apparently I can't read.  Tiger/Leopard they're both cats...

Indeed, I ran my test under 10.5. Under 10.4 I see the behaviour that
you are seeing.

Under 10.4, if I mount two shared directories (DEV and FOO) from the
same machine (say timmy.company.com) then I see "timmy.company.com"
and "timmy.company.com-1" in the /Volumes folder

I get better info from a "df" command in the Terminal.

Now, if I get the DumpVolumeInfo sample from developer.apple.com and I do this:

./DumpVolume -c /Volumes/timmy.company.com

it reports the volume name as "DEV".

So, you need to be calling FSGetVolumeInfo().
[you can create a FSVolumeRefNum via FSGetCatalogInfo()].

Take a look at the DumpVolumeInfo sample:  PrintFSGetVolumeInfo(...)

There may be a lower level Cocoa way of doing this but there you go...

Cheers,
-H.

On 30/01/2008, Michael Hanna <email@hidden> wrote:
Hi Herb!

This is on Tiger? I just tried what you suggested like this:

  if (FSPathMakeRef((const UInt8 *)[filePath
fileSystemRepresentation], &fileRef, &isDirectory) == noErr)
  {

CFURLRef theURL = CFURLCreateFromFSRef( kCFAllocatorDefault, &fileRef );
NSURL *fileURL = (NSURL*)theURL;


      NSLog(@"[fileURL path] %@", [fileURL path]);
  }

and the -path I get back is identical to the [NSString
-fileSystemRepresentation](contains the smbfs server name, not the
name of the actual smb volume).

Michael

On Jan 30, 2008 8:58 AM, Herb Petschauer <email@hidden> wrote:

On 30/01/2008, Michael Hanna <email@hidden> wrote:
Hi there, I've run into a problem with pathnames that have been
dragged-and-dropped on a window. They are exactly like the paths which
you'd expect from -fileSystemRepresentation. In Leopard, the pathnames
from an SMB mount I will get from the Finder are like:


/Volumes/SMB_Mount/Files/AnnualReport_Cover.pdf

but in Tiger I would get something like:

/Volumes/SMB_Server/Files/AnnualReport_Cover.pdf

where I'll get the server name and not the volume name.

I've been hacking these paths to create a UNC path, but on Tiger this
is impossible because I can't get the Volume name.


Perhaps there's a better, more general way to create paths in
Carbon(for instance)? I've tried creating an FSRef, but being very
Carbon ignorant have just been stabbing in the dark with it. For
instance, I tried to make an NSURL from CFURLCreateFromFSRef hoping
that would give me something more general, but that didn't change
anything.

Michael

Oddly enough, I'm Cocoa ignorant but a bit more Carbon savvy :-)

Actually I've got a Foundation tool that accepts files dragged onto
the application icon. My handler for this accepts an NSURL. All I do
is call the NSURL's "path" method and the path I get is something like


/Volumes/DEV/somefile.txt.

I admit that may be different than your situation but it does seem to
be possible to get the path you are looking for...


Cheers,
-H.


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