Issue in creating folder via JS on OS X

Hi, all,

I use folder.create(path) to create a new folder, where path is of course the full path to where I want the folder created. I'm using InDesign CS 5.5 and OS X Lion. For many weeks, I've used the following code just fine:

                myFolder = "~/Desktop/hi";

                myCreatedFolder = new Folder (myFolder);

As expected, the folder would be created in the Desktop folder of my user account. And then all of a sudden it stopped working: The folder would not be created. I discovered the culprit but I don't know WHY this is the cause. There is a server I connect to that mounts a folder called "users" in /Volumes such that there is a path there of "/Volumes/users". For some reason, the path of "~/Desktop" is being interpreted as "/Volumes/users/Desktop", which I don't have permission to write to so the folder creation fails. If I change the code so that it is:

myFolder = "/Users/myusername/Desktop/hi";

It still fails. It seems that the "/" is being interpreted as being "Start in /Volumes" rather than the file system's "/". If I disconnect from the server and therefore unmount "/Volumes/users" the script works fine and creates the directory "hi" on my Desktop.

(InDesign is installed locally; the file I am running the script on is local; and the desired write location is also local.)

Has anyone experienced anything similar?

Thanks,

Steve