FolderItem, NativePath, drive question

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Xojo 2020.1 on Mac OS Mojave.

Okay, I’m missing something basic. I use the “ShowSelectFolderDialog” to allow the user to select a directory which I then store in a FolderItem property and store the NativePath in a listbox.

How do I know what drive the FolderItem is on? I can’t find the drive in either the FolderItem property (in debug mode) or in the NativePath or ShellPath.

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I think it only includes the volumes if it is not on the default drive

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Well the NativePath will include the drive information, because when the drive is mounted it has to appear as part of the overall file system. So on macOS, a drive named “Wiggy” will show up as:

/Volumes/Wiggy/

on Linux I think it’s:

/media/Wiggy/

Not sure on Windows, I suppose it’ll have one of these drive letters. So I suppose it’ll be:

x:\Wiggy\

Why do you care, anyway? Just use NativePath.

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Okay, got it. The answer is that “if it’s on the default drive”.

thanks guys

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On Windows, it will just be the drive letter. The volume name isn’t part of the path. Eg.,

x:\

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If I browse for a file on my local / default drive the native path is /usr/name/… if it is on an external drive it is /Volumes/DriveName/…

I am on 10.14.6 using APFS and the external drive is exFat.