Re: Finder - getting file type
Re: Finder - getting file type
- Subject: Re: Finder - getting file type
- From: DizzyPenguin <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:22:13 +0000
On 23 Dec 2004, at 12:06, Bill Briggs wrote:
Is there anyone that can tell me why the below first snippet would *randomly* fail (on a OSX 10.3.7 system) while the second one doesn't, while choosing the same file?
-- start
x to choose file
application "Finder" to set y to file type of x
--end
Can't seem to get it to fail, but I'm not going to run it any more. Half a dozen times is enough today. Most of the files on my desktop don't sport a type code, but the script returns the "" as expected. Those that do have a type code (Frame files) return "FASL" as expected.
Bill,
The issue has now been sorted with (one of) Paul's suggestions of using "System Events" and "file" as follows:
tell application "System Events"
to set fType to (
file type of file existFile_wExt)
My customer is happy now and all is well.
I've never myself come across this problem nor have any other of my customers, but I have come to the conclusion that something is going wrong with "Finder" on the user's system.
Thanks for your input.
Regards,
Guy
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