Fetch Softworks

Setting Hard Disk and User Names (2 posts)

• Started 19 years ago by tll
• Latest reply 19 years ago from Jim Matthews

• tll Member

  I recorded a fetch script in OS X. Part of one statement was
  'item alias "MacHD:Users:myname:Desktop:filename"'.

  I would like to modify the script so that 'MacHD' and 'myname' are variable so that the script can run on other machines.

  What I need to know is how to complete these 2 script statements:

  set macHD to ???
  set myname to ???

  Are there system values that will retrieve the name of the startup disk and the name of the current user?

  If I have them then I can use the following statement:

  set putto to macHD & ":Users:" & myname & ":Desktop:filename"

  and modify my recorded script to

  'item alias putto'

  so that it will run on any OS X machine.

  TIA for any help!

  TomP

  Posted 19 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  This should help:

  set desktopPath to (path to desktop as string)

  That will set desktopPath to the path to the current users' Desktop folder.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 19 years ago #