Startup Disk

Bill Vlahos bvlahos at jpl.nasa.gov
Wed Jan 23 12:53:01 EST 2002


Ben,

Super. That is just what I wanted.

Thank you,
Bill Vlahos

On Wednesday, January 23, 2002, at 09:41  AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:

> on 23/1/02 4:58 PM, Bill Vlahos at bvlahos at jpl.nasa.gov wrote:
>
>> Is there an easy way to refer to the startup disk without knowing the
>> exact name of it? For example, I want to put a file into the 
>> Preferences
>> folder on a Mac but users can call their hard disk anything they want.
>
> Use 'the specialFolderPath' (introduced in 1.1).  This does more than 
> you
> want (returning the full path to various folders on the startup disk - 
> see
> the docs for more info) but from that you can extract the volume name.
>
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