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Re: Moving files from desktop to User folders
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Re: Moving files from desktop to User folders


  • Subject: Re: Moving files from desktop to User folders
  • From: Gary Lists <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 13:27:27 -0500

On or about 1/5/03 10:04 AM, phildobbin wrote:

> On 3/1/03 23:21, "Gnarlodious" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Entity phildobbin spoke thus:
>>
>>> Could somebody show me some basic syntax to move a file from the /User
>>> desktop to a designated folder nested in the /User/Documents folder?
>>
>> tell application "Finder" to copy file "Hotlist.html" of desktop to folder
>> "Documents" of home
>
> From a modified:
>
> tell application
> "Finder.app"
> copy file "CGI script" of desktop to "Documents"
> end tell
>
> ScriptDebugger gives me a:
>
> `Can't set "Documents" to file "CGI script" of desktop. Access not allowed.'

Guessing...no 'folder' reference to "Documents" ... as is done in the first
example...?

--
Gary
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