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How we get caches folder using Extendscript

  • July 19, 2020
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Hi Everyone,

 

Today, I am stuck to getting cache folder for both mac and windows. 

How we can get the below paths using javascript?

for Mac: /Users/<user>/Library/Caches/

for Windows: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\

 

Please give any helps.

Thanks.

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    Correct answer Laubender

    Hi John,

    the code below should work:

    app.generalPreferences.temporaryFolder.parent

     

    With my German InDesign 2020 on Windows 10 it returns:

    // ~/AppData/Local/Adobe/InDesign/Version%2015.0/de_DE/Caches

     

    Regards,
    Uwe Laubender

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    LaubenderCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    July 22, 2020

    Hi John,

    the code below should work:

    app.generalPreferences.temporaryFolder.parent

     

    With my German InDesign 2020 on Windows 10 it returns:

    // ~/AppData/Local/Adobe/InDesign/Version%2015.0/de_DE/Caches

     

    Regards,
    Uwe Laubender

    ( ACP )

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      AD4003Author
      Inspiring
      July 22, 2020

      Thank you very much Laubender. I got the path using this code.

      Kasyan Servetsky
      Kasyan Servetsky
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      July 21, 2020

      JS Folder object has a few properties representing system locations like user's desktop, documents folder, etc.

      Maybe you can start from userData to get to the caches folder?

      For example, Folder.userData returns ~/AppData/Roaming on my Windows 10 computer.

      So I can get it like so:

      main();

function main() {
	var userDataFolder = Folder.userData;
	var cacheFolderPath = userDataFolder.parent.absoluteURI + "/Local/cache/"
	var cacheFolder = Folder(cacheFolderPath);
}
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      AD4003Author
      Inspiring
      July 22, 2020

      Thank you Kasyan_Servetsky.I appreciate your effort.

      The above code This will not give the caches folder path. I need to get the InDesign Caches folder path like below.

      for Windows: C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Adobe\InDesign\Version 11.0

      for Mac: /Users/<user>/Library/Caches/Adobe\ InDesign/Version\ 11.0

       

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