How to access a file on a remote computer

[Scott Rossi]

Hi Pete:

Many years ago I ran into path issues with players and (from my notes) wound up with a workaround that involved using the “full” file path like this:

set fileName of player 1 to \
  "file:///volumes/primary/users/dude/really_long_filename_here.mp3”

I also had in my notes to specifically replace spaces with “%20”.

These modifications were for older versions of LC, so not sure if they will make any difference now.  If you continue to have issues you might try urlEncoding the path as well.

Regards,

Scott Rossi 
Creative Director 
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design 


On Jan 18, 2015, at 4:50 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> I'm almost there.
> 
> The reason I'm looking into this is because I'm setting the filename of a
> player control to the name of a mp3 file on a remote computer.
> 
> I thought I had it all working but the player control does not like
> filenames with an ampersand in them.
> 
> I tried escaping the ampersand with a "\" character (that's what I see if I
> drag the filename into a Terminal window) but still no joy.
> 
> Same problem with filenames including an apostrophe. I'm guessing there are
> other characters that cause the same problem
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Pete
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> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Kay and Kee, your suggestions put me on the right track.
>> 
>> Kay: there is a mount command available though Terminal but I've never
>> used it so don;t know if it would do what you're suggesting.
>> 
>> Pete
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>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 3:39 AM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Kee,
>>> 
>>> that had me confused and I looked a little deeper. It appears that
>>> I've just been lucky in the simple URL way I've been accessing files
>>> across my LAN - this is as tested on OS X 10.9.5.
>>> 
>>> The URL method I posted earlier, and the open file for read methods do
>>> NOT seem to work unless the actual network folder the file resides in
>>> is mounted on your system - i.e. the Eject symbol needs to present not
>>> just the server and or folder icon visible. After a quick test the
>>> simplest way I've found within LC to mount the network folder/file and
>>> get the exact path name is to use - answer folder/file
>>> 
>>> answer file "Choose a file:"  --navigate to a network TEXT file to test
>>> put "file:" & it into tFilePath
>>> put URL tFilePath into msg
>>> 
>>> For ages I've been using LC to 'do as AppleScript' to tell BBEdit to
>>> open a network file. I've then been using the 'put URL xxxx into tVar'
>>> and 'put tContent into URL xxxx' without a hiccup. I didn't realise
>>> that LC needed the file to be mounted first and BBEdit was doing it
>>> automatically for me.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone know if there is a command to force OS X to mount a folder
>>> that you have appropriate access rights to? I can think of a million
>>> reasons why you would want to bypass the 'answer folder/file' step. It
>>> would be nice if either the  put URL, or open file methods
>>> automatically mounted the folder, or a 'mount fiolder' command that
>>> acted like a faceless 'answer folder'; you gave it a folder path and
>>> it mounted just like answer folder/file is doing now but without the
>>> dialog box.
>>> 
>>> If no one knows of a faceless way to mount a folder on OS X I can put
>>> in an enhancement request.
>>> 
>>> Do those on Win and Linux have automatic mounting of network
>>> folders/files or is this a problem on those platforms as well?
>>> 
>>> Oh and one last thing. One MAJOR difference between the URL method and
>>> the open file for read method. If you use open file for read, whilst
>>> ever it is open if you try and unmount the server/folder, i.e. click
>>> on the Eject icon, you will get a System warning telling you "The disk
>>> xxxxx couldn't be ejected because LiveCode is using it". With the URL
>>> method it is possible to Eject the server/folder without any warning
>>> so may unwittingly stop your stack from doing what it's suppose to.
>>> 
>>> I think I better go back and change my URL method to open file for read.
>>> 
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