Fullpath on Mac OS 10.5 for GDL TEXT Addon

[Jochen Suehlo]

Can anybody tell me the correct syntax of the fullpath keyword for MAC OS 10.5 for the GDL DATA and TEXT ADDON (as I am new on MAC):
"Users/joe/Documents/Bauten/GDL/name.txt"
does not work.

[Karl Ottenstein]

Joachim wrote:
Can anybody tell me the correct syntax of the fullpath keyword for MAC OS 10.5 for the GDL DATA and TEXT ADDON (as I am new on MAC):
"Users/joe/Documents/Bauten/GDL/name.txt"
does not work.

I have not experimented to see what path formats the add-on wants to see, but the Mac uses at least two formats. The one you show above is a Posix/Unix one - but is missing the initial "/" to indicate that Users is a root folder of the active/boot drive. (There is a unix way to address other disk drives, too.)

There is also this type of path:

Macintosh HD:Users:joe:Documents:Bauten:GDL:name.txt

where "Macintosh HD" is the name of the drive that you are referencing.

I've seen some kinds of combinations of the two.

No experience here - but you might try either the extra "/" or the ":" method and see if one works?

Cheers,
Karl

PS here is another illustration from the AppleScript help file:

POSIX path of file "HD:Users:me:Documents:Welcome.txt"
-- result: "/Users/me/Documents/Welcome.txt"

PPS The syntax used in the Options > Work Enironment > Special Folders is most likely what the GDL add-on uses - and that is the Mac-style ":" path. (I find this really annoying because it forces your hard drive name to be part of the path - and if you change the disk name, the paths no longer work...a problem if you clone your OS onto multiple partitions: stuff will not work correctly on the clone as there is no concept of 'active drive', only the hard-coded disk name.)

[Jochen Suehlo]

Thanks Karl,

Macintosh HD:Users:joe:Documents:Bauten:GDL:name.txt 

works well and the syntax of the special folder correspondents with it.