Adobe Camera Raw EA only gives a value for Lion or greater machines.

[tomt]

I have an EA that pulls the version number of the Adobe Camera Raw plug-in on machines with the CS5 suite. It only seems to be returning info on 10.7 and 10.8 machines.

This is my EA:

#!/bin/bash

# get the current version of the Camera Raw plug in

echo -n "<result>"

defaults read /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-Ins/CS5/File Formats/Camera Raw.plugin/Contents/Info.plist CFBundleShortVersionString

echo "</result>"

If I run just the command <defaults read /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-Ins/CS5/File Formats/Camera Raw.plugin/Contents/Info.plist CFBundleShortVersionString> on 10.7 it returns the correct value (6.7 (339)).

When I try it on a 10.6.8 machine it returns:
"The domain/default pair of (/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-Ins/CS5/File Formats/Camera Raw.plugin/Contents/Info.plist, CFBundleShortVersionString) does not exist"

I've done some googling but haven't found anything that pointed me to a cause or solution. Has anyone come across this?

Thanks everyone.

[cvgs · Accepted solution]

Just drop the ".plist" at the end of your path. The defaults command did not like paths ending in plist up to 10.7.
From the manpage: "Domains may also be specified as a path to an arbitrary plist file, omitting the '.plist' extension".

[tomt]

Christoph, if we are ever in the same place at the same time your beers are on me!

Thanks,
Tom