Re: Trying to get the path to every file in a folder - Help!
Re: Trying to get the path to every file in a folder - Help!
- Subject: Re: Trying to get the path to every file in a folder - Help!
- From: Geoffrey Dudgeon <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:09:36 -0500
Michelle, you're a lifesaver. Thanks so much, and happy holidays!
-Geoff
On 23-Dec-04, at 2:01 PM, Michelle Steiner wrote:
On Dec 23, 2004, at 11:48 AM, Geoffrey Dudgeon wrote:
tell application "Finder"
--the user inputs the source folder
set sourceFolder to (choose folder with prompt "Select a folder to
begin:")
set filesList to path of every file in sourceFolder
First of all, get rid of the tell application "Finder" wrapper.
Secondly, "every file of" returns the paths as Finder objects. So
"path of" generates an error because you can't get a path of a path.
Secondly, mail.app doesn't understand Finder objects, so you need to
coerce them into aliases. So, the code that you need is this:
--the user inputs the source folder
set sourceFolder to (choose folder with prompt "Select a folder to
begin:")
tell application "Finder" to set filesList to every file in
sourceFolder as alias list
-- Michelle
--
I love my country; I'm just ashamed (and afraid) of its current
government.
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