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Re: newbie question on simple finder actions
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Re: newbie question on simple finder actions


  • Subject: Re: newbie question on simple finder actions
  • From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:36:17 +0200

At 4:30 PM -0400 21/04/03, Daniel E. Bunker wrote:

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
tell application "Finder"
make new alias to these_items

Check carefully Finder's dictionary. You read that "make" wants an "at" parameter to specify where the new object (here, the alias file) should be created.

From what I read in that dictionary, also, you should use "alias file", not "alias".

"alias" is the generic class used by AppleScript to describe files and folders that exist. For instance an AppleScript reference to my hard disk is "alias Startup"

"alias file" is a class specific to Finder, it is the class of those files that we usually call "aliases".

Emmanuel
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