how to adress a users folder on Mac OSX

Phil Davis revdev at pdslabs.net
Thu Jan 18 11:00:01 EST 2007


Hi Richard,

Here's one way:


-- button script
on mouseUp
   put ($HOME & "/Library") into tTargetFolder
   set the defaultFolder to tTargetFolder
   put the files into fld 1
end mouseUp


"$HOME" is an environment variable - always there, no need to define it.

Phil Davis



R. Hillen wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> what should I write to get a list of files in the library of the actual 
> user?
> 
> somewhat like:
> 
> put files(/Users/???/Library) into FileList ?
> 
> Thank you for your help
> 
> Richard.



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