Re: Applescript and referring to a folder
Re: Applescript and referring to a folder
- Subject: Re: Applescript and referring to a folder
- From: Rowland McDonnell <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:51:00 +0000
Aliases on disk and aliases in AS are different beasts.
Deep joy - that's cleared up a lot of confusion.
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.
Okay, thanks for that tip.
What I got working myself looked like this - in terms of
identifying and selecting the file system objects I'm working with.
tell application "Finder"
if not (exists folder "TeXShop_aliases_test" of home) then
make new folder at home with properties {name:"TeXShop_aliases_test"}
end if
set selected_folder to folder "TeXShop_aliases_test" of home
end tell
tell application "TeXShop"
repeat with this_document in documents
tell application "Finder"
set this_documentF to this_document
end tell
set this_documentX to path of this_document as string
set this_documentM to this_documentX
tell application "Finder"
make new alias at selected_folder to POSIX file this_documentX
#make new alias at selected_folder to this_documentF
end tell
end repeat
end tell
which works, for a given value of `works', but what I managed to
cobble together is very plainly VERY ugly - is there a way of
*not* having to go via a POSIX view of the world to turn `this
documentX' into a Finder-comprehensible file system pointer?
Cheers,
Rowland.
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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