Can you look up a Hard Drive name in Extendscript?

[wckdtall]

I'm running:

alert(Folder.desktop.fsName)

Which brings up:

/usr/home/<<userName>>/Desktop

I need it to bring up:

<<hardDriveName>>/usr/home/<<userName>>/Desktop

Ex. Macintosh HD/usr/home/tferguson/Desktop

Is this possible with Javascript/Extendscript?

[Chuck Uebele]

On Win, this alert will show "C:\". Might work the same on Mac.

#target photoshop

var user = new Folder('~/')

alert(user.parent.parent.fsName)

[wckdtall]

As is, this script still shows /usr as the path. To get to what would be the hard drive its:

var user = new Folder('~/')

alert(user.parent.parent.parent.parent.fsName)

But this errors out, as there's no data beyond this. Tried it also without fsName, and it just returns null. Good thought though!

[Pedro Cortez Marques]

In windows you get the user name like this:

$.getenv("USERNAME");

And if you want the name of the PC:

$.getenv("COMPUTERNAME");

Do not know on Mac

[d1g1talphyre]

I'm on a mac, don't know if this makes a difference or not, but i've always used this to find the full path name.  It just drops the "/Volumes" from the path. Which would still give you the HDD that your working from.

example:

alert(activeDocument.fullName.toString()); 

That should pop up with the full path of the file.  You can drop the toString(), also I just happened to have spaces in the path of the document I opened to try this with.

Hope this helps!

[wckdtall]

Thanks for this, sorry for the delayed reply, when you grab from Desktop, it goes with ~/Desktop, instead of giving the full path.

[xbytor2]

File("~/Desktop/stest.jsx").fsName

Result: C:\Users\xbytor\Desktop\stest.jsx

[Pedro Cortez Marques]

I have tried on Macintosh OS 10.8.5/64 and this went well

var system = $.os; // it gives the "Macintosh OS 10.8.5/64" in my case
var userName = $.getenv("USER"); // on Mac, it gives the active user name
var userBaseFolder = Folder("/Users/" + userName); // gives '~'
var computerName = userBaseFolder.parent.parent.displayName; // in my case it gives 'Macintosh HD'

// the next Folder is exactly the same as  /Users/[userName]
// also the next Folder is exactly the same as  ~
Folder("/" + computerName + "/Users/" + userName);

[wckdtall]

Will give it a shot. I believe I tried something similar, and it errored out and wouldn't go higher than "~".

fsName did not work in the past on Mac.

[xbytor2]

File('~').parent.parent.displayName for the Mac

File('~').parent.parent.name for Windows