Thanks Craig and Matthieu. However, we can now reformulate the problem: ‘FileLocator documents allChildren’ does not trace the hierarchy of these directories correctly. It finds its way to C:\Users\Peter\Documents, searches for subdirectories and finds ‘My Music’ etc. among the true subdirectories. It seems that the Pharo mechanism for interrogating the Windows file system is confused by these aliases. As I said, not a great problem for me, but maybe worth noting.
Peter Kenny From: Pharo-users [mailto:pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org] On Behalf Of Matthieu Lacaton Sent: 30 July 2015 11:16 To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] FileLocator problem? Windows 7 uses "aliases" for these directories. It is the way different languages or owners are handled. For example in French you can see your music directory as "Ma Musique" but the real name used in paths is actually "Music". As Craig said, the default paths for these directories are : "C:\Users\Your_User_Name\Documents" or "C:\Users\Your_User_Name\Music" and so on. But you can always change them so the best way to see the real path of your directories is to right click on one and go to "Properties" => "Location". Note also that Windows uses "\" instead of "/" for paths. I don't know if it is relevant in Pharo though. Cheers, Matthieu 2015-07-30 11:43 GMT+02:00 PBKResearch <pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk <mailto:pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk> >: Hello Out of curiosity I tried to run the snippet which Alexandre Bergel posted yesterday under the name ‘Script of the day’. It failed, but nothing to do with the script itself. The problem is that it fails on the line: ‘FileLocator documents allChildren.’ The debugger message is “Directory does not exist: Path ‘C:’ / ‘Users’ / ‘Peter’ / ‘Documents’ / ‘My Music’.” Tracing through the debugger output, I conclude that the same error will arise with the directories ‘My Pictures’ and ‘My Videos’. One thing these directories have in common is that they are empty, so as a test I copied a small text file into ‘My Music’, but this made no difference. I have a vague recollection that ‘My Music’ etc., although presented by Windows as conventional directories, are in fact some sort of pseudo-directories constructed as required by Windows Explorer, but I am not too sure about this. Could this be an explanation of the problem? It’s not an urgent problem for me; it can easily be worked round by ensuring that I never try to locate files in these directories. But if it is a bug, it might be relevant to someone else. My environment is Windows 7 Professional, running Moose 5.1 (Pharo4.0 Latest update: #40613). Thanks for any help Peter Kenny
