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Re: Resolve alias


  • Subject: Re: Resolve alias
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:25:38 -0700

On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 12:16 PM, John Fountain wrote:

Does anyone have any idea how to get the path to the original file from an alias in osX?

tell application "Finder"
try
original item of foo
-- assuming that foo is an alias file
on error
display dialog "The file is not an alias file."
end tell

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