Re: POSIX file wierdness
Re: POSIX file wierdness
- Subject: Re: POSIX file wierdness
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 18:00:27 -0400
on 2005-05-09 8:18 AM, Alastair Rankine at email@hidden wrote:
>> Perhaps this is because the edited path doesn't correspond to an actual file
>> on disk? Try changing the file name in the Finder first, then editing your
>> script. Does it work now? Alias references have always had this compile-time
>> restriction, and perhaps it has been extended to this syntax.
>>
>> ....
>>
> I'm reading some of the comments in the other "O'Reilly Automator
> article" thread. My example would seem on the face of it to be an
> excellent example of why AppleScript needs major renovation/replacement,
> as some have suggested. Despite your help - and I thank you for it - I
> am unable to see any rational basis for the behaviour I am seeing from
> AppleScript, and hence I'm starting to agree with them.
My response to your question was labeled as a guess, so it shouldn't be
cited as evidence in the debate about AppleScript unless you've verified
that I guessed right.
Did you try changing the file name first, then changing the AppleScript
reference? If so, did it work? If it did not work, something else is going
on and my guess was wrong.
--
Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
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