Re: Applescript and referring to a folder
Re: Applescript and referring to a folder
- Subject: Re: Applescript and referring to a folder
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:50:10 -0500
Aliases on disk and aliases in AS are different beasts. The Finder
wants the latter as the location of the former. You can get an AS
alias by adding " as alias" at the end of whatever you're using to
choose the folder, e.g.
set targetFolder to (POSIX file "/path/to/target") as alias
then you can use targetFolder as the location in a 'tell application
"Finder" to make new alias' statement.
On Monday, January 25, 2010, Rowland McDonnell
<email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Try this:
>
> (In this case destinationFolder has been coerced to an alias)
>
>
> I'm not sure I understand what that means. I want to /create/ an alias in a particular folder - that folder being identified by the contents of the variable destinationFolder in your code example.
>
> I don't know how to fill the variable destinationFolder with data that Applescript will accept as a reference to a folder - I just get errors.
>
>
> tell application "Finder"
>
> make new alias to POSIX file thisDocumentX at destinationFolder
>
> end tell
>
>
> The problem is that I don't know how to make the variable destinationFolder into a suitable data type.
>
> I just get error messages no matter what I try.
>
> Can someone please show me how to tell Applescript to make an alias to a particular file in a particular folder?
>
> The bit that I cannot work out myself is how to refer to files and folders using Applescript variables.
>
> Rowland.
>
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