Anyway I can find where Notes8.5 is Installed on Mac

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Hi,

We have the way to find Notes install dir in Windows registry, but is there some way to do the similar thing on Mac?

We’d like to provision plugins to Mac Notes automatically and don’t want force user to find out their Notes location manually.

Thanks.

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Subject: Notes install location on Mac

We do not give the user a choice in where they install Notes, but we do allow them to choose which volume (hard drive) to install it on. So, assuming that the user has just one volume, Notes will always be installed into the /Applications directory. If they install it onto another volume it will create an “Applications” folder at the root of the drive and install it there.

The only other issue is that a user can move Notes post installation, though they would need to move it back to do an upgrade or apply a hotfix.

We do write the standard Mac package receipt, written by the Mac installer to “/Library/Receipts/Lotus Notes Installer.pkg” but I don’t think that specifies where Notes is installed, beyond being in the “Applications” folder.

So the short answer is that you can make some assumptions about where Notes will be installed 90% of the time, but you cannot be sure without asking the user. Have you considered tapping into Spotlight? Spotlight can easily and quickly find the current Notes install.

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Subject: o.k - but can’t help you, sorry.

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Subject: Use a notessession and read variables allready there from notes.ini?

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Subject: Sorry, I think I did not make myself clear.

Sorry, I think I did not make myself clear.

I have an installer which installs my plugins to Notes. However, from the installer’s perspective it doesn’t know where Notes is so it cannot call rcplauncher.exe to do the provision. One way is during the installation progress, my installer shows a GUI imput box to allow user to specify where Notes is. But on Windows, we know where Notes is since Notes installer will write something to Windows Registry, so I’d like to ask if Notes will write something global on Mac environment, so that a 3rd party plugin installer can find where Notes is and call rcplauncher.exe to do the provisioning.

Thank you.

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