Re: Can't consistently make alias folder
Re: Can't consistently make alias folder
- Subject: Re: Can't consistently make alias folder
- From: Jim Skibbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:19:30 -0600
- Thread-topic: Can't consistently make alias folder
Title: Re: Can't consistently make alias folder
Sorry, I may have confused the issue as I pasted in the result from the Event log...
The actual script code is:
make new alias file at folder appFolder to AIfold with properties {name:AI_ASName}
where the variables above are strings that are the paths to the two places and the last one is the name of the new alias folder.
If I make the string variables into aliases then that will work consistently?
Thanks.
Jim
On 30 Jan 2008, at 16:25, Jim Skibbie wrote:
> Wondering if someone can help with this...
> I’m making an alias to a folder of scripts at the user’s root level. Most of the time this
> script works, but sometimes I get an error that says “Can’t make class <<alia>> error.
> The line that is erroring is inside a Finder tell block that says:
> make new alias file at folder (alias "Macintosh HD:Users:jim:Library:Scripts:Applications:") to "Macintosh HD:Jim
> Scripts:Script Menu:Illustrator:" with properties {name:"Adobe Illustrator 10"}
Your 'to' parameter should be a Finder reference or AppleScript alias value, not a string. Not that you should really be dumping scripts at / anyway; use ~/Library/Scripts for per-user scripts and /Library/ Scripts for system-wide ones with permissions set appropriately, and they should all show up in the Script menu automatically.
Has
From: Jim Skibbie <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:25:39 -0600
To: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
Conversation: Can't consistently make alias folder
Subject: Can't consistently make alias folder
Wondering if someone can help with this...
I’m making an alias to a folder of scripts at the user’s root level. Most of the time this script works, but sometimes I get an error that says “Can’t make class <<alia>> error.
The line that is erroring is inside a Finder tell block that says:
make new alias file at folder (alias "Macintosh HD:Users:jim:Library:Scripts:Applications:") to "Macintosh HD:Jim Scripts:Script Menu:Illustrator:" with properties {name:"Adobe Illustrator 10"}
Result is usually --> alias file "Adobe Illustrator 10" of folder "Applications" of folder "Scripts" of folder "Library" of folder "jim" of folder "Users" of startup disk
To fix this, I made a try block to trap the error, then created a repeat until exists loop to check to see if it is there, then make it, then check it. Once it’s there, it continues on. This seems like a lot of run-around just to make an alias folder.
Am I doing something wrong? The error seems to come and go and I’m having trouble understanding why it would sometimes error and sometimes not.
Thanks.
Jim
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