File Explorer on Mac Client

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I am using the File Explorer component to select a location for a file to be saved and then appending the file name. When doing so i have to add “” to the front of the file name so it places it in the correct folder. This causes issues when the client is on a Mac. I am using the FileOutputStream from the Apache POI. Examples below.

Windows when saving to desktop = “sample.xls”
Mac when saving to desktop = “Desktop\sample.xls”

Also is there a way to tell what operating system the client is running on?

Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome.

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Try these on the client, and see what values are returned for OSX vs Windows:

print system.util.getProperty("os.arch")
print system.util.getProperty("os.name")
print system.util.getProperty("os.version")

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Thanks PGriffith, i think that will help me out on knowing the file path structure.