<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - URL to folder / directory no longer working in LO 6.2.4.2 for Mac" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125607#c7">Comment # 7</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - URL to folder / directory no longer working in LO 6.2.4.2 for Mac" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125607">bug 125607</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:thms.maeder@gmail.com" title="Thomas Maeder <thms.maeder@gmail.com>"> Thomas Maeder</a> <pre>(In reply to Stephan Bergmann from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=125607#c6">comment #6</a>) I cannot judge on how LO works on other platforms, but MS Excel (which I still have to use at the office...) behaves in a similar way on both Mac and Windows: while it does not let you select a folder in all implementations, links to folders have (up to now) always worked as expected on both platforms. As for the security issue, it seems it is possible to detect applications. Two examples using Applescript (simple folder vs application) to get their info are given below. Looking at both resulting attribute sets: - Both applications and folders indeed have the "folder" attribute (your concern). - Applications names have the ".app" ending, folders don't. - The file type of apps is "APPL", that of folders is an empty string "". - Applications (+ others) are bundles (the "package folder" attribute), not folders. Other attributes may be used, such as "kind", but, as seen in the example, the returned value is localised (in French in this example), making it harder to write generic code. A safe way to differentiate seems to me to check for the "APPL" attribute. One could also possibly ban opening bundles. What do you think? ------ 1) Folder: Desktop 1a) Script set elem to "Desktop" as alias get info for elem 1b) Result {name:"Desktop", creation date:date "lundi, 10 décembre 2007 à 22:05:00", modification date:date "jeudi, 16 décembre 2010 à 15:22:36", size:6148, folder:true, alias:false, package folder:false, visible:true, extension hidden:false, name extension:missing value, displayed name:"Bureau", default application:alias "Hobbes:System:Library:CoreServices:Finder.app:", kind:"Dossier", folder window:{0, 0, 0, 0}, file type:"</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>