Relative folder paths

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Fri May 25 20:17:01 EDT 2007


Bill Vlahos wrote:

 > Lets say I have a folder containing a standalone, Data folder,
 > and Preference folder all at the same level. The defaultFolder
 > would be the folder at the level of the standalone.
 >
 > If I change the defaultFolder to "DataFileFolder" I can then
 > just "put the files into vFilesList" to get a listing of the
 > files. However, this resets the defaultFolder value so I can't
 > get to things in the Preference folder.
 >
 > How would I get a listing of files in the
 > defaultFolder/DataFileFolder?

Just move up one with "../":

   set the directory to "../DataFileFolder/"


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