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Re: I cannot even successfully have the Finder make a folder on the Desktop!
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Re: I cannot even successfully have the Finder make a folder on the Desktop!


  • Subject: Re: I cannot even successfully have the Finder make a folder on the Desktop!
  • From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:49:17 -0700

On 7/27/04 11:26 AM, "Michelle Steiner" <email@hidden> wrote:

> On Jul 27, 2004, at 11:09 AM, Bill Planey wrote:
>
>> tell application "Finder"
>> make new folder at path to desktop folder) with properties
>> {name:"folderName"}
>> end tell
>
> After I corrected the syntax error of the missing left parenthesis, it
> worked fine for me. I'm using the same system version that you are.

Whoops. I didn't even notice that. Using parentheses should indeed make
'path to desktop' folder' get both coerced (it's a synonym for 'path to
desktop') and evaluated first. (Although just plain old 'desktop' does work
fine here as a Finder object).

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Paul Berkowitz
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