Default folder path

[Rod Edwardson]

Hello all

I have a need to save a fields contents to a .txt file and have that figured out. What I am having issues with is the right way to save the file in a specific folder. Right now its placed in the documents folder and Im wondering how to have a folder created within the documents folder and have the .txt file saved there. Any help would be appreciated. This is what I have functioning

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Put  Field "fld_title"of card "Step one"Into URL ("file:" & specialFolderPath("documents") & slash & "Title" & ".txt")

[Simon]

Hi Rod,
Just create the folder first:

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on mouseUp
   create folder  specialFolderPath("documents") & slash & "1Folder"
      Put  Field "fld_title"of card "Step one"Into URL ("file:" & specialFolderPath("documents") & slash & "1Folder/Title" & ".txt")
end mouseUp

Simon

[Rod Edwardson]

Works great! Thank you very much for the assistance.

[nextyoyoma]

Hi Rod,
Just create the folder first

Can someone explain why we need to do that? I'm used to bash scripting, where you don't have to create a directory before writing a file to it. Would it not be simpler for LiveCode to create a directory if one does not exist?

[Simon]

I think you want to put that in the Feature Request forum.

Simon

[nextyoyoma]

I think you want to put that in the Feature Request forum.

Simon

Will do. Just wasn't sure if there was some particularly important reason it didn't already work that way. Thanks!