Desktop path

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Desktop path

Hi there,

I am writing an Installer package in PackageMaker, and was wondering, how do I point to the desktop of a user? I have tried Users/~/Desktop and ~/Desktop but they will not work.

Can someone please help me?

Cheers,
Ricky.

20" iMac G5 (iSight); 15" MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.9), BOSE Speakers, Mighty Mouse, iPod video 80GB; AirPort Extreme Base Station (new)

Posted on Jun 15, 2007 11:51 PM

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Answer 1

Calvados

Level 2

355 points

Jun 16, 2007 8:10 AM in response to rickydamelio

As a general rule, it's probably not necessary to automatically put anything on somebody's Desktop. A program icon would go better in the Dock, and everything else either in the application bundle, or in the Preferences or Application Support folders in the Library.

For general purposes, the path ~/Desktop will work within a shell (which knows to expand the tilde into the user's home directory). If you use it in one of the scripts that the Installer will run for your package, it should function. Where did you put the "~/Desktop" when it didn't work?

This is a pretty good intro to the PackageMaker.

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Answer 2

etresoft

Level 9

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Jun 16, 2007 8:36 AM in response to rickydamelio

Try $HOME/Desktop

That should work in any shell.

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