How to access a file on a remote computer

[J. Landman Gay]

If it works then my answer doesn't apply. But I got curious and did some 
research on the OS X sandbox. Most of what I found was old info but 
there's a reasonably readable explanation here:

<http://www.cultofmac.com/113977/os-x-lion-sandboxing-is-a-killjoy-destined-to-ruin-our-mac-experience/>

Which mentions iTunes controllers:

"As pointed out by MacRumors, there are other apps that will be 
negatively impacted by sandboxing:

• iTunes controllers (Tagalicious, CoverSutra)"

But apparently you've got it working. I'm not sure about LC 7 file 
paths, haven't gone there yet.


On 1/19/2015 3:26 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> Hi Jacque,
>
> Using the "/Volumes" way of opening the file worked!
>
> I ran into one issue - some of the filenames have unicode characters in
> them.  I searched the list and found this solution from Bjornke:
>
> put unidecode(uniencode(tVar,"UTF8")) into tFilename
>
> That makes things work whether the file name has unicode characters in it
> or not.
>
> This, of course, is using pre-7.0 technology.  Ou of interest, if I used
> 7.0 how would I set about translating a string with unicode characters in
> it into a form acceptable as an OSX filename?
>
> In answer to your thought about sandboxing, I'm doing exactly the same as
> iTunes - accessing music files in the ~/Music/iTunes folder so I assume
> they would be within the app's sandbox.
>
>
> Pete
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>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>
>> Right, yes I did try that and all works fine using the contents of the it
>> variable that comes back. It uses the "/Volumes" format for the mounted
>> folder/file.
>>
>> Problem is though that I already have the location of the file I want to
>> play (but in "file://" URL format so don't want to prompt for it.
>>
>> Maybe I can get this working by somehow transposing the "file://" format
>> file URL I already have into a "/Volumes" format.  I'll give that a try and
>> report back.
>>
>> Pete
>> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
>> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and
>> SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:23 AM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> On January 19, 2015 1:14:04 PM CST, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>>>> Thanks for all the suggestions.  Still trying to get this working.
>>>
>>>
>>> I can't remember if you tried this yet but what happens if you do an
>>> "answer file" dialog and use the file path that comes back?
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