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Re: Open current folder


  • Subject: Re: Open current folder
  • From: "Bob.Kalbaugh" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 10:43:15 -0500

on 12/20/01 6:12 AM, Daniel Gustafsson at email@hidden
wrote:

> I've made an applescript which is meant to open up the folder which the
> script itself resides in (this is used to open folders from a flash
> projector)
>
> the script itself looks like this
> ---8<---
> tell application "finder"
> activate
> open ":" as alias
> end tell
> --8<---
>
> It worked just fine before but it doesn't work under MacOS 9.2. Any
> incompatibilities or just bad code on my behalf? I'm really desperate right
> about now. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Daniel,

That approach has stopped working. There are a few alternatives from recent
posts to the list that covered this. You might want to check the archives
for these threads to review all of the details. Here are the relevant bits
(code snippets) from a few.

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 >Open current folder (From: Daniel Gustafsson <email@hidden>)

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