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Yevgeny Simkin
Yevgeny Simkin

Reputation: 28349

is there a prescribed way for a chrome app to find the ~/ folder on the file system?

I'm writing a chrome app that (ideally) would find the user's Dropbox directory located under their home directory ~/.

As an (irrelevant) reference, Macromedia's Flash has a methodology for requesting that directory from the Runtime so that you don't have to go looking for it yourself.

I don't see anything comparable in the chrome.fileSystem class and am wondering what the "best practice" approach is to finding that directory? Or if I just have to brute force it

Upvotes: 0

Views: 33

Answers (1)

Xan
Xan

Reputation: 77482

chrome.fileSystem is supposed to access locations that the user selects. You cannot just "probe" for folders without presenting a selection dialog.

Just ask the user to select the Dropbox folder.

Upvotes: 3

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