LaserSoft Imaging

I have spent the last 20 minutes trying to find the SilverFast/Albums folder. I tried searching for it by name: no result. I tried creating a new album and searching for it by name: no result! I tried copying a photo to the new album and searching for that by name: again no result!!!

I even tried looking inside the SilverFast app package: no result.

at the last second, I thought to check the Options panel and found the preference setting for the location of the Albums folder.

I haven't used SF for a while. my main HD has been reformatted in that time although my home directory remained the same after the format as before (which brings up a 'bug' in SF's storing of the Albums location).

I was not able to see the whole folder path in the Special panel but was able to locate the directory by searching for what I could see. the album turned out to be inside an Aladdin StuffIt plugin package at:



it's no wonder I couldn't search for it!

my main suggestion for this is that if the user-designated folder is within the user's Home directory, then you save the directory relative to the Home directory: usually using the ~ notation. this would avoid these weird problems in the future.

regards
Gregory

This sounds really wierd. I can't imaging, how SilverFast get this folder for use with Alben.
To limit the costumers to the Home directory couldn't be the right way. Several users uses different location (maybe also in pkg), and we don't want to limit this.

kind regards

my suggestion was not to limit people to the Home directory. I have stuff all over the place too ;-)

my suggestion was that *if* the user selects a directory within their Home directory, then Lasersoft saves it as a ~directory. I would also add that if the user selects a directory within their boot drive, Lasersoft saves it as a / directory without using the /Volumes/ directory. in this way, after formatting the drive and restoring the Album directory, SF will still see the directory.

is SF currently using Unix "/" directories or Mac ":" directories or aliases to store the paths?

this is a *small* matter though. I wouldn't spend too much time thinking about it ;-)

As I got it correctly, SilverFast is using the FSSpec values, which comes from OS 9. So it could be, that those reference numbers change after a new install. I don't know, how those numbers are givin to each folder.

kind regards

PS : I don't