Volume name from File class ( Document saved )

[Pickory]

Hi,

I have an InDesign document that has been saved. I would like to know the volume name that the document is saved on.

File and Folder class are not offering much.

Thank you.

P.

[Robert Kyle]

I think file.fullname will return the file path  

[Pickory]

Thank you for your reply. 

It does not work for me 😞

//=======

alert ( app.activeDocument.fullName + "\r" +

app.activeDocument.fullName.displayName + "\r" +

app.activeDocument.fullName.fsName + "\r" +

app.activeDocument.fullName.fullName + "\r" +

app.activeDocument.fullName.path + "\r" +

app.activeDocument.fullName.relativeURI + "\r")

//======

[rob day]

Hi @Pickory , You can easily do it with AppleScript, but the ExtendScript file path doesn’t seem to resolve the full absolute path

[Peter Kahrel]

You have this problem only with files on your desktop. To get the drive/volume name you'ld do

Folder("~/Desktop/").parent.parent.parent

P.

[Pickory]

Thank all. 

Peter, that did the trick.

Folder("~/Desktop/").parent.parent.parent.displayName

[Pickory]

I wonder, is this safe?

var p = app.activeDocument.fullName.parent;

var volName = "";

while ( p )

{

volName =  ( p.displayName )

p = p.parent;

}

alert ( volName );

[Peter Kahrel]

It's not safe because (over here) it always returns null, whether the file is on the desktop or anywhere else. That's because of the addition of displayName. That may be a bug, no idea.

The only way I could get it to work is with this mongrel:

var p = app.activeDocument.fullName.parent;
var temp = app.activeDocument.fullName;

while ( p ) {
  temp = p;
  p = p.parent;
}

alert ( temp.fullName.replace('\/','') );

[Pickory]

Thanks for looking.

Are you running Windows? I am on Mac CC 2019.

[rob day · Accepted solution]

Maybe this?

var sv = Folder("~/Desktop/").parent.parent.parent.displayName
var fp = app.activeDocument.filePath.toString()

if (fp[0] == "~") {
	alert("Document Volume: " + sv)
} else {
    alert("Document Volume: " +fp.split("/")[1])
}  

[Pickory]

Hello Rob,

That works on my Mac, thank you.

I wonder about removable / remote storage, mac and windows.

P.

[rob day]

It works for me with either a networked or attached volume. If it’s not the start up volume the string is something like  /VolumeName/Users/usename or /VolumeName/TestFolder/test.indd. Looks like a startup drive file path always starts with "~"

[Pickory]

Thank for testing that.

[rob day]

I am on Mac CC 2019.

AppleScript is more straight forward:

tell application id "com.adobe.indesign"
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
	set d to file path of active document as string
	set w to word 1 of d
	set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
	display dialog ("Document Volume: " & w)
end tell

[Pickory]

Thank you.