Re: seeking some help
Re: seeking some help
- Subject: Re: seeking some help
- From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 13:25:18 -0700
On 10/14/01 1:12 PM, JK <email@hidden> wrote:
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As a script newbie I love the potential but "whewww" what a learning
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curve... I parsed it down to this, But... it tells me I can not get "entire
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contents" of "Alpha:downloads:" is there an OSAX i need to have installed
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property mainContainer : "Alpha:downloads_archive:"
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tell application "Finder"
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set theDate to date string of (current date)
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set mostRecentFolder to (make new folder at folder mainContainer with
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properties {name:theDate})
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move the entire contents of "Alpha:downloads:" to folder
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mostRecentFolder
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end tell
Two things here:
First, "Alpha:downloads:" is a string.
Second "mostRecentFolder" is defined as a folder already, so preceding it
by "folder" would create an error.
move the entire contents of folder "Alpha:downloads:" to mostRecentFolder
--Michelle
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