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Subject: special characters in file names
From: Jim Brandt <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:07:56 -0500

Can someone tell me how to duplicate a file to a folder whose name

contains a character such as a bullet (option-8) or a space?

Here is a line from a script I have:

duplicate theFile to folder (infomac & "•Originals:")

This results in the following in the event log:

get document file "asv2n0298.txt" of folder "InfoMac" of disk "HD1"

"HD1:InfoMac:asv2n0298.txt"

copy "HD1:InfoMac:asv2n0298.txt" to folder "HD1:InfoMac:•Originals:"

"Finder got an error: Can't set folder \"HD1:InfoMac:•Originals:\" to \"HD1:InfoMac:asv2n0298.txt\"."

If I create a folder without the bullet in the name and change the line to:

duplicate theFile to folder (infomac & "Originals:")

,the duplicate statement works correctly.

Putting the complete name of the folder in a variable doesn't work either.

Any suggestions?

Jim Brandt

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