Re: How to choose a hard disk or volume?
Re: How to choose a hard disk or volume?
- Subject: Re: How to choose a hard disk or volume?
- From: Gary Hobish <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 00:04:35 -0800
Nope, there's no stray quote, and in fact there is no texte preceding the
line I posted. Quite simply, if I change the word "disk" to "file," or
"folder," the script compiles without a complaint.
At this point, the WHOLE of the script is:
set localDisk to (choose disk)
Gary Hobish
Armin Hammer Productions
San Francisco
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From: Paul Skinner <email@hidden>
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To: <email@hidden>
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Check your script carefully, or post it. I think that you have a
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mismatched quote character in the text preceding the error that the editor
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is highlighting. This would cause the compiler to read the quote before
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'Choose' as a closing quote and to read the text 'disk' as the object
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'disk'.
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Paul Skinner
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Ron Chapple Studios
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> I want the user to choose a volume within a script. I have tried:
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> set localDisk to (choose disk with prompt "Choose your startup disk.")
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> but I get an error when checking syntax on the word "disk" which says
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> "Expected "," but found identifier."
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> I tried the same thing with the word "volume" replacing "disk" but got the
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> same error.
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> Any ideas?