There was a question on the ADUG list last week about how to retrieve “special folder” locations on OS X. By special folder, I mean locations like the user’s Home directory, the Documents directory, Temp directory, etc. I thought I’d write up the solution both because it’s probably something that more people will be wondering and also because it’s a nice little introduction to calling out to the OS X API.
If you want either the path to the Home or the Temp directory, this is ridiculously easy. The IOUtils unit already contains TPath.GetTempPath and TPath.GetHomePath, and these work on both Windows and OS X.
However, if you want another directory, such as the Documents directory, you need to do a little more work.
