One of the cases where it would be nice is the location of the plugins
folder ("User Extensions"), which is why I mentioned ~ to begin with.On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode < [email protected]> wrote: > Just clarifying that the two are not interchangeable. From the OP, I don’t > think ~/ links would be used at all. I am not saying that we should include > the ./ but that when discussing relative links for assets that the fixed > point should be the stack location and not something anchored to the > profile location. This would mean that all of the Dropbox/Google > Drive/network share stuff would work as expected. You could also zip a > stack with the associated assets and as long as the structure was preserved > another user could unzip and use the stack. > On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 2:12 PM Mike Kerner via use-livecode < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Yes, Brian. So I'm not sure what you're getting at. > > > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > ./ is current directory. ~/ is the user home directory. > > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 2:00 PM Mike Kerner via use-livecode < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Actually the ~ is a unix convention, so it is also used in Linux. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > The tilde is a MacOS convention. The period should be universal. ./ > > as > > > > > opposed to ~/ > > > > > > > > > > Bob S > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Oct 30, 2017, at 10:48 , Mike Kerner via use-livecode < > > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > If you use Backup and Sync (the old "Drive"), your folder is > > ~/Google > > > > > Drive/ > > > > > > If you use Drive Stream and do not map the mount point to an > alias > > in > > > > the > > > > > > documents folder, the mount point will be a volume. > > > > > > > > > > > > Git was not amused when I switched on the one machine. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via > > > > > > use-livecode <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >> @Mike I tried to duplicate your 3rd case. Are you on Mac OS X? > > > > > >> > > > > > >> if I create a stack, place and img in an adjacent image folder > and > > > > move > > > > > to > > > > > >> the server ("Chola") in the next room… set the img filename to > > > > > >> > > > > > >> img/tiger.jpg > > > > > >> > > > > > >> it works @brian ./img/tiger.jpg also works… but really doesn't > > get > > > us > > > > > >> anything… we have to manually enter either way > > > > > >> > > > > > >> So from terminal if you do "cd /" and you look under Volumes… > the > > > > > >> DriveFileStream is not there? > > > > > >> > > > > > >> in this if I do > > > > > >> > > > > > >> cd /Volumes > > > > > >> I will see > > > > > >> > > > > > >> MyDrive HD > > > > > >> Chola > > > > > >> BR Back ups (USB for local Time machine backups) > > > > > >> > > > > > >> But "Chola" is a "network store"… I guess I don’t understand the > > > > nature > > > > > of > > > > > >> the connection/Mount context to Googles Drive File Stream… how > > that > > > is > > > > > >> different? > > > > > >> > > > > > >> At any rate you do seem to have a different, though obviously > > > related > > > > > >> issue. > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> > > > > > >> On 10/30/17, 6:09 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Mike Kerner via > > > > > >> use-livecode" <[email protected] on behalf > of > > > > > >> [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> > > > > > >> On "b", I have three machines that I use. Two of them use > > > Google's > > > > > >> Backup > > > > > >> and Sync service, and the other uses Google's Drive File > > Stream. > > > > So > > > > > >> in for > > > > > >> two of the machines, the answer is "mostly yes" - the > > difference > > > is > > > > > the > > > > > >> username, as the "Drive" folder is in the user folder. 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