To 'navigate' the file system, we need to address the 'Finder' (because as
far as we know, that is the only app that can 'get the folder of a file'
etc.)
Be aware that not every OS X user runs the Finder, preferring
third-party file managers instead.
This works fine, with the only exception that our original typeFSS object
immediately becomes a 'document file' type (which is a finder type)
Actually it becomes a reference (e.g. document file "Foo" of folder
"Bar" of disk "Baz" of application "Finder") [1], not a type [2].
However, we don't see any way of converting this back to a 'typeFFS' object.
Ask the Finder to coerce the reference to a file spec for you:
tell application "Finder"
set str to name of inInputFile
set test2 to file str of folder of inInputFile as file specification
end tell
HTH
has
[1] Really a relational query, but folk generally call them
references as it sounds less scary.
[2] Really a symbol, but folk generally... etc.
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