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Re: Really basic Finder question
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Re: Really basic Finder question


  • Subject: Re: Really basic Finder question
  • From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:29:33 -0600

At 12:35 -0400 4/11/08, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Nigel Garvey  wrote:
>
>>   tell application "Finder"
>>     make new Finder window to desktop
>>   end tell
>
>to.  of course.  the one preposition I didn't think to try.   on.
>for... even at, though I'd expect that to be for positioning the
>window rather than determining its contents...
>
>but of course if it's a "target" then "to" makes perfect sense...

"To" avoid guessing. . .
do shell script "open -a Finder $HOME/Desktop/"

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