Re: Applescript to create an alias to the a file please
Re: Applescript to create an alias to the a file please
- Subject: Re: Applescript to create an alias to the a file please
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:39:09 -0500
Why are you using get on a literal string? That makes no sense.
Try just (POSIX file "blah").
On Tuesday, February 9, 2010, Paul Taylor <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi, Im just trying to create an alias to a file, and set the name of the alias to different to the file, my filenames are provided in the POSIX notation.
> So far I have:
>
> tell application "Finder"
> set theFile to (POSIX file (get "/Users/paul/Music/AliasTest/test.mp3"))
> set theAlias to make new alias file to theFile
> end tell
>
> but this fails with:
>
> error "Finder got an error: Can’t get POSIX file \"/Users/paul/Music/AliasTest/test.mp3\"." number -1728 from file "Macintosh HD:Users:paul:Music:AliasTest:test.mp3"
>
> even though this file does exist !
>
>
> thanks Paul
>
>
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