Re: tell Finder to move files

• Subject: Re: tell Finder to move files
• From: peter <email@hidden>
• Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:51:23 +0200

Peter,
The following script works for me (regular AppleScript, not Studio):


property prefsFolder : ""
property theFileName : ""
property theDestination : ""
property destinationPath : ""
property thePath : ""

on run

tell application "Finder"
set prefsFolder to (home as text) & "Desktop:"
end tell


set theFileName to "example.txt"
set thePath to (prefsFolder & theFileName)

set theDestination to "some folder"
set destinationPath to (prefsFolder & theDestination & ":")

tell application "Finder"
move alias thePath to alias destinationPath
end tell


end run

The folder path needs to be coerced to alias too. The error you received was misleading

Tom

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