Having trouble with the File and Folder Objects (PSCS3 javascript on Win)

[_vergcastelo_]

I'm having trouble successfully creating a new folder on my windows platform, using javascripts in photoshop. In ExtendScript Toolkit 2, set to Adobe Photoshop CS3, I've tried:

var myFolder = new Folder("/c/Documents and Settings/vcastelo/My Documents");
myFolder.create();

and

var myFolder = new Folder("/c/Documents and Settings/vcastelo/My Documents");

is this right? what am I doing wrong? It's pretty basic stuff, I know but I can't figure is out... any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Paul Riggott]

Try this:
var myFolder = new Folder("c:/Documents and Settings/vcastelo/My Documents");
myFolder.create();

[_vergcastelo_]

thanks paul,
but no luck. it supposed to create a folder in my documents folder right?

[Larry G. Schneider]

Is the drive designation case sensitive?

[_vergcastelo_]

oh I see, I just figured it out... the drive designation isn't case sensitive... but i didn't add the name of new folder to the destination path. This works now:

var myFolder = new Folder("c:/Documents and Settings/vcastelo/My Documents/data");
myFolder.create();

where "data" is the name of the new folder in "My Documents"
Thanks guys. keep scripting!
vergo_O

[_xbytor_]

vergcastelo@adobeforums.com wrote:
> oh I see, I just figured it out... the drive designation isn't case sensitive... but i didn't add the name of new folder to the destination path.

Yep.
>
> var myFolder = new Folder("c:/Documents and Settings/vcastelo/My Documents/data");
> myFolder.create();

The "/c/Documents and Settings/vcastelo/My Documents/data" form works, too, and
should be preferred.

Here's an extreme example as to why this is a good idea:
I work in an XP/cygwin environment, so I added links to all of my drives in my
root cygwin folder. As a result, the path /p/Pictures/2008-05-05 is the same on
the bash command line (and other tools) as it is in PSJS. I carried this over to
my Mac, as well. I mount P: drive in OSX then setup links so that
/p/Pictures/2008-05-05 is also the same on the Mac. This has vastly simplified
my work. The only time I use system-specific pathnames is in a script's UI.

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