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Re: Trying to get the path to every file in a folder - Help!
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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: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:18:17 -0700

On Dec 23, 2004, at 4:06 PM, John Stewart wrote:

tell application "Finder" to set filesList to every file in sourceFolder as alias list


This will error if there is only one file in the source folder.

Good point. I keep forgetting about that bug/feature because I normally don't have folders with only one file in them.


This won't and you will still have a list of alias in filesList when it's finished.

I think the following is a bit simpler; it returns a list of aliases; if the folder is empty, it returns an empty list (it returns the empty list even without the try statement).


set sourceFolder to choose folder
tell application "Finder"
	try
		set filesList to files of sourceFolder as alias list
	on error
		set filelist to files of sourceFolder as alias as list
	end try
end tell

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We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem.

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