Referencing randomly named folders

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#1

Hey there!

I’m writing a generic script that backups Firefox’s bookmarks. Trouble is that FF stores that info in a randomly named profile folder:

~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/[somethingrandom].default/bookmarks.html

How would you go about referencing that file?

Thanks a lot,
O

#2

Hi,

try this


set profileFolder to POSIX path of (path to application support folder from user domain) & "Firefox/Profiles/"
set bookmarkFiles to paragraphs of (do shell script "/usr/bin/find " & quoted form of profileFolder & " -name bookmarks.html")
#3

Cool! Thanks!

And how would you reference the profile folder itself?

#4

The first line of the script points to the profile folder, if you want a HFS path, use


set profileFolder to ((path to application support folder from user domain as text) & "Firefox:Profiles:")
#5

Ah.
Sorry for being vague.
I mean the randomly named profile folder (somethingrandom.default) inside the profiles folder.

#6 

set profileFolder to ((path to application support folder from user domain as text) & "Firefox:Profiles:")
tell application "Finder" to set defaultFolder to (folder 1 of folder profileFolder whose name ends with "default") as text
#7

Hi olindefelt,

If you want the user to choose which profile bookmarks to backup, you could also read and parse the following configuration file:

/Users/yourname/Library/Application Support/Firefox/profiles.ini

If you open this file with your favorite text editor you can see, that it contains certain key/value-pairs for every profile, including the profile name and the corresponding relative path to the profile folder:

[Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=Profiles/42stukvd.default