Getting the name for a Mac Users 'home'

[Marc Siskin]

Adrian,

Another option would be to install the fonts in the /Library/Fonts  
directory which should make the fonts available to every user on the  
machine.

Marc

On Apr 24, 2009, at 11:55 AM, Adrian Williams wrote:

> Thanks to Mark and Marc, both solutions are useful.
> The Administrator will be using this Installer in all cases.
> So I guess a simple "~/library/fonts" will suffice.
>
> Many thanks,
> Adrian
>
>
> On 24 Apr 2009, at 16:39, Marc Siskin wrote:
>
>> Adrian,
>>
>> If you are referring to the logged on user then the path is always  
>> ~/Library/etc.  If you are referring to all users, then you need to  
>> list the /Users directory which will give you a list of the  
>> accounts on the local machine. You should be able to parse the  
>> username from the listing of that directory.  You will probably  
>> need to use a sudo command if you are trying to install fonts in  
>> any other user than the one currently logged on.
>>
>> Marc Siskin
>
>> Hi Adrian,
>>
>> On the Mac, that's "~/library/fonts".
>>
>> --
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>>
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>> On Apr 24, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Adrian Williams wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> Installing fonts into the Public domain is a breeze:
>>> MacHD/Library/Fonts/MyNewFont.ttf
>>>
>>> But I need to install and uninstall fonts in the Users domain. For  
>>> example:
>>> MacHD/Users/someunknownname/Library/Fonts/MyNewFont.ttf
>>>
>>> How can I retrieve 'someunknownname' from any computer and place  
>>> it in a variable in the pathname?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Adrian
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