ExtendScript: how to find user's home directory

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August 24, 2020
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I am new to Adobe ExtendScript, I would like to know how I can replace the tilde (~) with the absolute path of user's home directory?

In my script, I need to find the absolute path of the script itself. To do this, I use: var scriptPath = File($.fileName).path

But this gives me a tilde for the first part which is not recognized by the FrameMaker as user's home directory; therefore, I cannot use it to pinpoint where my files are located.

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Correct answer Ian Proudfoot

This is how I would find the path:

var scriptPath = Folder(File($.fileName).path).fsName;

Ian Proudfoot

Legend

The quick way to get the full path from an ExtendScript file object (in a way that FrameMaker can digest) is as follows:

var scriptPath = File($.fileName).fsName;

fsName provides the platform-specific full path name for the referenced file.

hadih26673991Author

Inspiring

Awseome. Then I would only need to remove the filename itself to get the path.

Ian ProudfootCorrect answer

Legend

This is how I would find the path:

var scriptPath = Folder(File($.fileName).path).fsName;

frameexpert

Community Expert

In your script, you can use

app.UserSettingsDir

to give you the 15 folder (for FrameMaker 2019), etc. Does this help?

www.frameexpert.com

hadih26673991Author

Inspiring

Hi Rick,

Thanks. Yes that helped. I was able to extract the user's home directory out of the home directory of FrameMaker folder 16 (in my case).

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