specialfolderpath(), WAS: App restart after update

[Klaus Major]

Hi Dave,

> On 18 Jun 2008, at 08:24, Klaus Major wrote:
>> Hi all
>>> ...
>>> With Rev 2.9 you can now get the temp folder on all three  
>>> platforms with:
>>> get specialFolderPath("temporary")
>> I tried them and two of them simply did not work/ returned empty on  
>> OS X 10.5.3, Rev 2.9!?
>> specialfolderpath("home")
>> specialfolderpath("temporary")
>> All the others work as exspected.
>> Is this already bugzillaed?
>> Could someone check this please?
> Same result here. With the 4-character Apple codes, using  
> specialfolderpath("cusr") returned the correct "home" directory.

So does $HOME, but we need a crossplatform solution.

> Using specialfolderpath("temp") returned empty. (Perhaps I don't  
> have a temp directory...)

You do, Dave, you do ;-)

Thanks for testing, just added my comment to bug no. 3176.
Unfortunately bug no. 5277 and 5799 are closed and marked as fixed!?

> Cheers
> Dave

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de