getAbsoluteFile() or .getAbsolutePath()

Classic Servoy
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Hello,

I noticed that on Windows the file plugin returns something like N:\abc.txt when using getAbsoluteFile(). My understanding is that an absolute path looks like \server\share.… This is a very important feature for handling files since you can never be sure how a user maps a server.

Is this a bug or am I missing something?

Thanks
Patrick

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no an absolute path is a path that has (under windows) driveletter:\ in front of it or \servername\

so if a user is selecting a file through its mapped drive then that would be the absolute path.
see:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api … olutePath()
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api … sAbsolute()

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Ok, and is there a way to figure out \server... if I get N:...?

Thanks
Patrick

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i don’t think so
Windows hides this from us (or java doesn’t know that)
At least i haven’t seen any method in File or its friends that would give you that info.