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iamscottwalter
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January 28, 2019
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Folder.userData is null?

  • January 28, 2019
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Hi,

I have a simple script which I am trying to get the value of the the userData attribute to write a file.  Any idea why Folder.userData on Mac Mojave system would return null?  This on a Mac Mojave system (10.14.2)

Thanks in advance, Scott

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TᴀW
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July 8, 2024

The issue seems to be when the user is using OneDrive to backup their desktop. I've also seen this with users that are using Sharepoint.

In those cases, all the Folder paths in Extendscript return null.

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    dbDavideBoscolo
    dbDavideBoscolo
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    August 29, 2024

    If you are developing an extension you can use node.js to get the same information.

    dbDavideBoscolo
    dbDavideBoscolo
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    August 3, 2023

    Did you find a solution for this?

    Stephen Marsh
    Community Expert
    Stephen MarshCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 3, 2023

    It works for me

     

    alert(Folder.userData);

// or

alert(Folder.userData.fsName);

// or

alert(Folder.userData.fullName);

     

    ~/Library/Application%20Support

     

    /Users/username/Library/Application Support

     

    ~/Library/Application Support

     

    Ps 2021 on Monterey 12.6.8 Intel Chip

      R
      r-bin
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      February 1, 2019

      You can also try.

      alert(Folder.userData + "\n\n" + $.getenv("APPDATA"));

      Only I do not know the analogue of the name "APPDATA" for MacOS

      Maybe you know? )

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      maxwyss
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      January 30, 2019

      Folder.userData should resolve to ~/Library/Application Support/ (or if you get it as URL ~/Library/Application%20Support)

      What you could do is get ExtendScript Toolkit, and hook it up with your Photoshop version, and run (for example) the following script:

      alert(Folder.userData)

      Photoshop should then come to the foreground and display an alert containing the path.

      It is, however, possible that the error is caused by Apple's messing around with interapplication communication in 10.14 (and it is getting worse and worse with every new version)

      Kukurykus
      Kukurykus
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      January 30, 2019

      I am on PC but when once I wanted to adjust script for OsX user I found there is problem with Folder.startup as well.

      Kukurykus
      Kukurykus
      Legend
      January 28, 2019

      On PC it returns: ~/AppData/Roaming. Documentation says on Mac it's for: ~/Library/Application Support

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      iamscottwalterAuthor
      Participant
      January 28, 2019

      Yes that is what it should be doing. But why is it returning null is my question.  Is it some sort of permission issue?

      Kukurykus
      Kukurykus
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      January 28, 2019

      For PC there is wrote: %USERDATA% (by default, C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data)

      I have no idea what's equivalent for %USERDATA% on OSX, but if there is some, see what it returns, used directly form SO.

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