You can use specialfolderpath("home") in windows or mac to get the users home
folder (known as the profile in Windows). Now you only have 2 possible places
it can be depending on Win7 or XP.
Bob
On May 11, 2011, at 3:13 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote:
> It is a Thunderbird pref file "prefs.js". XP stores it differently than Win7
> but in both cases the user's name is part of the path so I can't program for
> that. If I search the drive I will get the path to all the files and can
> validate the "right" one based on having the name "Thunderbird" in the path.
>
> Bill Vlahos
> On May 11, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>
>> I wouldn't try to search for it if I were you. Just check for the OS and
>> conditionally set the path accordingly. If it could be ANYWHERE, than that
>> begs the question, what is it and who put it there?
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> On May 11, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote:
>>
>>> I want to modify a prefs file on XP and Windows 7 computers. Since the file
>>> could be in different places I can't count on knowing the path to it. How
>>> do I execute a search for the file by name in LC and get the path to it?
>>>
>>> The file would only be on the user's hard disk not on any mounted servers
>>> so I want to restrict the search to just the user's drive.
>>>
>>> Bill Vlahos
>>>
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