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Re: Why doesn't this work?
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Re: Why doesn't this work?


  • Subject: Re: Why doesn't this work?
  • From: David Simerly <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:26:25 -0700
  • Url: http://www.digital-native.com

on 9/26/01 11:17 PM, Andri Benassi at email@hidden wrote:

> (* Yes I do have items on my desktop *)

Item 1 can mean anything. You're not being specific enough. If it's item 1
of the desktop that you want, then you need to tell Finder that
specifically:

tell app "Finder"
get name of item 1 of desktop
end

On my system this returns the name of the startup disk. HTH.

DS
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