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Re: making a new folder
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Re: making a new folder


  • Subject: Re: making a new folder
  • From: Roger_Jolly <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 12:53:28 +0200

Hi Chris,

You're trying to tell the Finder to make a new folder at a location it
doesn't know: the folder "Backup 8-01-02" of the desktop. Try this:

tell application "Finder" to make new folder at desktop with properties
{name:"Backup 8-01-02"}

on 01-08-2002 21:27, Chris Garaffa at email@hidden wrote:

> Hey everyone... Searched the archives but got 2000+ results; can't
> justify the time to go through them all.
> Hopefully, there's a simple answer to a basic question: How do I create
> a new folder in MacOS X with AS? Say I'm user filemak, and I want to
> create the folder "Backup 8-01-02" on my desktop. I tried:
> make new folder at "Data:Users:filemak:Desktop:Backup 8-01-02"
> but get an error "Finder got an error: can't get some object". (Of
> course, the make new folder command is in a tell application "Finder"
> block. The syntax seems ok (make new folder is in blue, if it matters),
> but it gets that error.
> I've also tried with a shell script (mkdir), but quoting issues are
> holding me back there as well...don't need/want to go there right now.
>
> I noticed Akua Sweets says that they may support OS X in 1.5, but
> 1.4.something is currently available... I will use an OSAX, as this is
> only going to run on one machine.
>
> If this is not possible, would anyone recommend a work-around? I'm
> thinking of manually creating an empty folder once, then duplicating it
> and renaming it in the script.
>
> Thanks
>
> c.
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