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Re: Given a POSIX Path...


  • Subject: Re: Given a POSIX Path...
  • From: Marconi <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 12:12:50 -0700

At 1:05 PM -0500 12/5/10, André Renault sent email regarding Re: Given a POSIX Path...:
May I guess?

tell app "Finder" to set the name of the POSIX file (myfile) to "newname.ext"

That doesn't do it:
Can't set <<class psxf>> "'/Volumes/Disk/Path/to/file.ext" of Application "Finder" to "newname.ext".


I also tried:
set item_info to info for POSIX file (FilePath)
but got a file not found for the file value in FilePath.




On 2010-12-05, at 12:49 PM, Marconi wrote:

Given the quoted form of a posix path to a file, how do I get that item's Finder info structure so I can rename that file?


I have a script that gets the item info for files dropped onto the script and renames the file based on contents of that file. But each dropped file has a corresponding file with a similar name and a different suffix and I need to rename that file as well (based on the data in the original dropped ".txt" file).


 So, from the dropped item, for example:
 /Users/marconi/documents/myfile.txt
 I tell Finder to rename this item to myfile(something).txt

For its companion file: /Users/marconi/documents/myfile.mpg I wish to make the same name change.

I know its full path but I don't know how, given the POSIX path to /Users/marconi/documents/myfile.mpg to tell Finder to rename it.



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