Problem getting files by file type or extension
Problem getting files by file type or extension
- Subject: Problem getting files by file type or extension
- From: Steve Mills <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:51:20 -0600
I was wondering if this situation looks familiar to anyone, and if
there's a known problem or workaround. I'm writing a script for a
customer that batch processes documents stored in subfolders of a main
folder. The script asks Finder for all MultiAd Creator documents like
so:
set creatorFiles to (get every file of fold whose (file type is
"Crtr" or name ends with ".crtr"))
"fold" is a Finder "folder" object reference. This line always works
on my Mac. On the customer's Mac, it will seem to work for several
subfolders, and then generate this error for some subfolders that - as
far as I've been told - do have Creator documents in them:
Finder got an error: Can't make some data into the expected type.
"fold" is generated before the main loop by this line:
set fold to folder (get item i of foldNames) of mainFold
Again, this is using Finder objects, and both lines are within Finder
tell blocks. The customer's OS is 10.3.9 (ewww). Mine's 10.5.5.
There might something that the customer isn't telling me, as I get the
feeling he's not too swift (replies with one short answer when I asked
three questions, says "Creator crashed" when what really happened was
the script processed all subfolders and generated the appropriate
error log, stuff like that).
Steve Mills
Drummer, Mac geek
http://sjmills5.home.mchsi.com/
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