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So the first problem is:

System Elends accepts

set myFile to POSIX file "file:///Macintosh HD/Users/Thomas/Desktop/Test.txt"

but not

set myURL to "file:///Macintosh HD/Users/Thomas/Desktop/Test.txt"

set myFile to POSIX file myURL

which I find strange.

And then the result of the POSIX file command is

file Macintosh HD:Macintosh HD:Users:Thomas:Desktop:Test.txt

which obviously won't word because of the double "Macintosh HD".

Or am I doing it wrong?

Emmanuel's satimage osax solutions work OK, however.

Thomas

Am 30.05.2010 um 20:53 schrieb Mark J. Reed:

POSIX file works with file URLs; in fact, the class of a POSIX file specifier is «class furl».

POSIX file "file://localhost/Users/richardr/Desktop/bevakad/NORRSÄTRASKOLAN_mall_
A4_2010/"

Should work as-is with System Events; add "as alias" if you intend to use it with the Finder.

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden> wrote:

satimage osax' absoluteurl command is good at that

Emmanuel

On May 30, 2010, at 6:44 PM, Richard Rönnbäck wrote:

does anyone know a way to locate a file by URL, such as

"file://localhost/Users/richardr/Desktop/bevakad/NORRSÄTRASKOLAN_mall_
A4_2010/"

and turn that into an alias/ posix file etc.

Preferably in vanilla AppleScript, as shell scripting seems to have some
encoding issues with decomposed/precomposed unicode characters

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References:
	>getting a file by URL ? (From: Richard Rönnbäck <email@hidden>)
	>Re: getting a file by URL ? (From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>)
	>Re: getting a file by URL ? (From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>)
	>Re: getting a file by URL ? (From: Thomas Fischer <email@hidden>)