Windows hard disk search

Bill Vlahos bvlahos at mac.com
Wed May 11 18:13:23 EDT 2011


It is a Thunderbird pref file "prefs.js". XP stores it differently than Win7 but in both cases the user's name is part of the path so I can't program for that. If I search the drive I will get the path to all the files and can validate the "right" one based on having the name "Thunderbird" in the path.

Bill Vlahos
On May 11, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:

> I wouldn't try to search for it if I were you. Just check for the OS and conditionally set the path accordingly. If it could be ANYWHERE, than that begs the question, what is it and who put it there? 
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> On May 11, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote:
> 
>> I want to modify a prefs file on XP and Windows 7 computers. Since the file could be in different places I can't count on knowing the path to it. How do I execute a search for the file by name in LC and get the path to it?
>> 
>> The file would only be on the user's hard disk not on any mounted servers so I want to restrict the search to just the user's drive.
>> 
>> Bill Vlahos
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