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From: chewy@apple.com (Paul Snively)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Preferences Folder
Message-ID: <4548@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Oct 89 16:27:44 GMT
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In article <835zebolskyd@yvax.byu.edu> zebolskyd@yvax.byu.edu writes:
> When using HFS, look for a folder named "Preferences" in BootDrive (which
> I assume is still the working directory reference number for the current
> System's directory).

AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!  This isn't true now, nor has it ever been 
guaranteed to be so.  What BootDrive IS is the WDRefNum of WHATEVER the 
Startup Application is, regardless of where it is (go ahead, try it: Set 
Startup to be some app that's somewhere other than in the System Folder, 
and see what BootDrive tells you).

PLEASE use SysEnvirons to determine where the Blessed Folder is and look 
THERE for Preferences.

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