@Jerome Thanks, I created a Safari bookmark to the link below to access ‘New User of Dramatica Story Expert’ and ‘Help > Help Topics’ and all works well.
file:///Applications/Dramatica%20Story%20Expert/Help/index.html
Interestingly opening this bookmark in Google Chrome does not work and instead just flashes between the two files below.
file:///Applications/Dramatica%20Story%20Expert/Help/dpro5_content.htm
file:///Applications/Dramatica%20Story%20Expert/Help/index.html
I looked further into this issue and it seems to be related to how Specifying the Path to a File or Directory was set-up when ‘Dramatica Story Expert.app’ was developed with the below caveats excerpted from this link are below.
All of the following entries are valid references to a file called MyFile.txt in a user’s Documents directory:
Path-based URL: file://localhost/Users/steve/Documents/MyFile.txt
File reference URL: file:///.file/id=6571367.2773272/
String-based path: /Users/steve/Documents/MyFile.txt
…
Important: Although they are safe to use while your app is running, file reference URLs are not safe to store and reuse between launches of your app because a file’s ID may change if the system is rebooted. If you want to store the location of a file persistently between launches of your app, create a bookmark as described in Locating Files Using Bookmarks.
That is, ‘Dramatica Story Expert.app’ uses the below ‘File reference URLs’ for the ‘New User of Dramatica Story Expert’ and ‘Help > Help Topics’ and these ‘File reference URLs’ might not be persistent and according to some forums these underlying details might have changed in Mac OS X 10.11.2 El Capitan from previous versions, but I have yet to see anything official.
So for ‘New User of Dramatica Story Expert’ I believe we have the below.
- File: Dramatica Story Expert Help
- Path-based URL: file:///Applications/Dramatica%20Story%20Expert/Help/art_and_craft_of_story.htm
- File reference URL: file:///.file/id=6571367.110784469
- String-based path: /Applications/Dramatica Story Expert/Help/art_and_craft_of_story.htm
So for ‘Help > Help Topics’ I believe we have the below.
- File: Dramatica Story Expert Help
- Path-based URL: file:///Applications/Dramatica%20Story%20Expert/Help/index.html
- File reference URL: file:///.file/id=6571367.109818569
- String-based path: /Applications/Dramatica Story Expert/Help/index.html
Regardless, creating a Safari bookmark to the link below to access ‘New User of Dramatica Story Expert’ and ‘Help > Help Topics’ and all works well, but it would be a nice feature to be able to access these help files within the app and not have to open up another document.
file:///Applications/Dramatica%20Story%20Expert/Help/index.html