Scratch

Again, for OS X, I'll refer your programmers to the File System Overview documentation provided by Apple; it's a good place to start. From there, they should track down the proper way to determine the location of a user's Home Directory, then point the Scratch dialogs at ~/Documents. There really isn't any other acceptable way to do this, from a UI convention perspective.

Here's another question. If we create a subfolder (in the Documents folder) would you like it called:
Scratch Projects
or
ScratchProjects
?
In other words, is it okay if the folder name has a space in it?

I'm also having a problem with file saving for pupils.

The pupils do not have any access to local drives, but have three network drives mapped when they log in.

I've changed the INI file and added the Visible Drives line with "H:"

H: is their user area.  In their profile the H drive is mapped to \\FILESERVER\INTAKE2007$\username

In Group Policy we do not redirect the "My Documents folder".  All references to this folder are hidden and or removed.

They also have access to two shared areas - one is read only to obtain resources and files, one is write only for them to save their work for the teacher to access. These are mapped as drives J and K.

The only other drive they have access to is a USB memory stick, which is always mapped to drive U with the application USBDLM.

My issue is that the user cannot save their files.  If they try and save their work to "Documents" it saves the file to C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\username\My Documents

This is no good because when our group policy is set so when they log off the changes and files in this area are not uploaded to their H drives.

I am sure that many other UK schools are configured the same way.

Last edited by gibbo (2009-02-26 05:16:41)

It doesn't show.  None of the network drives show.

If you try and click the various buttons you can end up showing C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\<username>\MY DOCUMENTS

It will save there, but obviously will not save that back to the server, since that profile's changes aren't replicated back to the server on logoff.

What an excellent question.  As a teacher working in a secure network environment, I'd like my students to be able to navigate to a shared network drive where our other programming projects are stored.  This is neither obvious nor easy for them, howver they cannot run executables in their home drives (for security reasons) and therefore all our programming projects are stored in this shared area.

i just got it downloaded i wanna impress my classmates i can do a whole buncha stuff i understand it may not be possible 4 someppl but i like 2 just keep it running so u dont have 2 worry about files and bookmarks n ol at nonsense.

I wish I had paid more attention to this discussion! I had  commented at an earlier date about this exact problem. I agree, getting kids to save to the correct place is hard enough and now with the new version, it's even HARDER!!
I want a default to the user's documents folder. That would be great! Oh we are in a Mac OS X environment.
Thanks!
Scratch on!

just to add,  I have added VisibleDrives to the ini file,   this works in that when selecting My Computer  you can only see the H: drive,  however  Desktop and Home are still displaying the C Drive.

Your comments on this thread helped inform the changes to Scratch 1.4. The default save folder on the Mac is now Documents. For information on how to customize the default save folder and other settings, please see: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Network_Installation

natalie wrote:

Your comments on this thread helped inform the changes to Scratch 1.4. The default save folder on the Mac is now Documents. For information on how to customize the default save folder and other settings, please see: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Network_Installation

THANKS!