This will, of course, give you the path to the drive where your movie is
installed. If your movie is running on a CD-ROM, or on a different hard
drive, the moviePath will not be helpful.
An Xtra called Buddy API has a function called DiskList that will return a
list of all drives, including all hard drives. The Xtra is free for
Macintosh users. You can get it at http://www.mods.com.au/budapi/
Slava
At 01:01 PM 7/23/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Use "the moviePath" to concatenate a fully-qualified path to the text file.
>That will include the drive's name.
>
>Christopher Watson
>Sr. Software Engineer
>Lightspan, Inc.
>
>
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>Is there a way to refer to the hard drive on a Mac other than by name? I
>need to read a text file, stored in the applications folder, but I'm
>wondering how to do so if the user has changed the name of "Macintosh HD".
>
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