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Two dumb questions:


  • Subject: Two dumb questions:
  • From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:11:04 -0500

OK, I know I've seen this before, but I don't recall the fix.  This is
all on Panther.


1. My script is doing this:

set foo to (POSIX file "/bar/baz/zoo")

which, of course, compiles to

set foo to (file "Macintosh HD:bar:baz:zoo")

and the script runs fine as long as I don't make any changes.  But if
I need to recompile it, that compilation fails on the above line with
a "NSCannotCreateScriptCommandError".  What's going on?

I know I can do a

set path to "/bar/baz/zoo"
set foo to (POSIX file path)

to prevent the recompilation, but I'm wondering what is wrong with the
HFS-syntax version of the line.

2. Script Editor seems to be caching file contents.  I'm trying to
read a file that at one time had only 25 bytes in it, and I only get
those 25 bytes.  It currently has 95 bytes in it.  Neither renaming it
nor copying the data back into it (from outside Script Editor) had any
effect; I had to close and restart Script Editor.  Any way to get
around that?





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