Re: Getting the Documents Folder
Re: Getting the Documents Folder
- Subject: Re: Getting the Documents Folder
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 10:26:24 -0800
On 3/14/02 10:00 AM, "Gnarlodious" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Entity Paul Berkowitz spoke thus:
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>> Now I am saying:
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>> tell application "Finder"
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>> set identityList to every folder of folder ,
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>> "Apple:Documents:Microsoft User Data:Identities:";
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> alias ((path to startup disk as string) & "Documents:")
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OK, so I am saying:
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set identityList to every folder of alias ((path to startup disk as string)
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& "Documents:Microsoft User Data:Identities:";)
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which gives:
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Finder got an error: Can't get alias "Apple:Desktop
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Folder:Documents:Microsoft User Data:Identities:";.
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when what I need is:
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{
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folder "Rachel Cogent" of folder "Identities" of folder "Microsoft User
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Data" of folder "Documents" of startup disk of application "Finder"
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}
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If you said that this was in a Finder tell block I missed it. The Finder
sometimes screws up 'path to', mixing up the startup disk and the desktop
(although I've only ever seen it the other way around before). Never use
'path to' in the Finder. Ever.
I would do the path part outside the Finder:
set identitiesPath to ((path to startup disk as string) &
"Documents:Microsoft User
Data:Identities:";)
tell app "Finder"
set identityList to every folder of folder identitiesPath
end tell
--
Paul Berkowitz
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