User Application Support folder on OS X?

[Dave Cragg]

On 18 Feb 2005, at 21:43, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> In my program I have some "current user" specific stack files that get 
> updated while using the app.  On Windows I stored these in the users 
> application data folder.  On Mac I want to store them in the users 
> Application Support folder (~/Library/Application Support).
>
> The problem is that I can't get specialFolderPath to return this 
> folder.  If you use specialFolderPath("asup") then you get the system 
> Application Support folder (/Library/Application Support).  It seems 
> that Revolution passes the system domain to FSFindFolder by default.
>
> For the time being I've resorted to storing the stacks in the user 
> pref folder but it pains me to do so.  So does anybody know if it is 
> possible to get system folders using shell?  If not then I will have 
> to write a little external to do this.

Could you first get the user's home folder, and then append what is 
returned from specialFolderPath("asup")?

Cheers
Dave