Getting the name of Startup Volume

As per the Subject, either ...

tell application "System Events" to set startup_Disk to (name of startup disk)

... or ...

tell application "Finder" to set startup_Disk to (name of startup disk)

... will return, as a string, the name of the startup drive.

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choose folder

... returns an alias HFS+ format path of the selected folder; whether on the local or an external volume. For example -...

alias "HD1_160:Applications:"

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(choose folder) as string

... returns, as a string, the HFS+ format path of the selected folder; whether on the local or an external volume. For example ...

"HD1_160:Applications:"

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Referring to - 'For a Startup Drive, AppleScript strips the /Volumes/ header and the volume name from the path it returns'. No.

UNIX identifies the boot volume, as the first '/'. On each boot volume at the root level, '/', is an invisible 'volumes' folder (directory). Inside the '/volumes/' folder are symbolic links to each attached and mounted volume.

Simply start your script with:

tell application "System Events"
set theStartupdisk to name of startup disk
set theUser to name of current user
end tell

To guide your script to another folder in your home directory:

set theLocation to theStartupdisk & ":" & "Users" & ":" & theUser & ":--NAME"
--or
set theLocation to theStartupdisk/Users/theUser/--Movies/Etcerea

That's all.

Good luck,
'!' Marcus.

You can also say

<pre style='font-family: Monaco;width: 90%; margin: auto; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid #B1B5B9; background: #EEEFF1;'>tell application "Finder" to the name of disk 1</pre>

since disk 1 is always the startup disk.