"Can't save to this disk"

[MikeKD]

Hi Folks,

I've broken a pdf saving script which used to work. The filename itself hasn't changed so I don't think that's the problem (there are no /s for instance) - I'm pretty sure it's the file path and Mac OS re-organising itself to sync with iCloud.

I'm trying to save PDFs to Dropbox and I think that the Dropbox folder on my my has changed location. According to info, the location is /Users/mikekentdavies/Dropbox/KJA Music Library.

The calculation I'm using to set the location variable is below; can anyone see where I'm going wrong? (I've also tried various combinations of filemac: / file: / .. / : etc having read the FM creating file paths webpage.)

"filemac:../Users/mikekentdavies/Dropbox/KJA Music Library/Set Lists/"
 & 
Gig::Gig Name
&
" - "
 & 
Gig::Version
 & 
" Set List.pdf"

 

[comment]

You are trying to use a relative path - and we cannot help you with that, because we don't know where your solution file is located. But surely you could use an absolute path that would start with:

"filemac:/YourHardDiskName/Users/mikekentdavies/Dropbox/KJA Music Library/Set Lists/"

 

[MikeKD]

Huge thanks yet again - that did the job :-)

As an aside; the database file itself had been moved by Mac OS when I started syncing files with iCloud. - so the database itself was on iCloud! - I've moved it now - I suspect that would have been a recipe for disaster..

 

Very best wishes,

Mike

[comment]

3 hours ago, MikeKD said:

I suspect that would have been a recipe for disaster..

I suspect the same.

 

Note also that you can take advantage of Filemaker's path functions - for example, your Dropbox folder appears to be a sibling of your Documents folder, so you could use:

Substitute ( Get(DocumentsPath) ; "/Documents/" ; "/Dropbox/KJA Music Library/Set Lists/" )

to get the same result as shown above (provided your hard drive or your user name is not "Documents").

 

Edited May 14, 2017 by comment

[MikeKD]

Ah - I thought there must be some way to find it; had't found Get(...Path) before.

Many thanks again!