Finder weirdness
Finder weirdness
- Subject: Finder weirdness
- From: Walter Bushell <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:55:54 -0500
Finder throws an error from the command it gets, which command runs by itself.
That is when I run the command that appears in the results and events window which throws an error, it runs. ?????
I think Finder is weird, better to do as much work as possible in Eunuchs.
I try
set x to (POSIX file "/Users/Walter/Music/YourBrain 000.pdf")
--tell application "QuickTime Player" to open x
tell application "Finder"
log x
my dostuff(x)
end tell
on dostuff(x)
set y to name of (info for x)
tell application "Finder"
set the name of x to "y" & text -7 thru -5 of y & ".pdf"
set name of x to "x" & text -7 thru -5 of name of x & ".pdf"
end tell
end dostuff
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and get
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tell application "Finder"
(*file After Ewe:Users:Walter:Music:YourBrain 000.pdf*)
end tell
tell current application
info for file "After Ewe:Users:Walter:Music:YourBrain 000.pdf"
--> {name:"YourBrain 000.pdf", creation date:date "Sunday, March 15, 2009 7:53:38 PM", modification date:date "Sunday, March 15, 2009 7:53:38 PM", size:54474, folder:false, alias:false, package folder:false, visible:true, extension hidden:false, name extension:"pdf", displayed name:"YourBrain 000.pdf", default application:alias "After Ewe:Applications:Preview.app:", kind:"Portable Document Format (PDF)", file type:" ", file creator:" ", type identifier:"com.adobe.pdf", locked:false, busy status:false, short version:"", long version:""}
end tell
tell application "Finder"
set name of file "After Ewe:Users:Walter:Music:YourBrain 000.pdf" to "y000.pdf"
--> error number -1728
Result:
error "Finder got an error: Can’t set name of file \"After Ewe:Users:Walter:Music:YourBrain 000.pdf\" to \"y000.pdf\"." number -10006 from name of file "After Ewe:Users:Walter:Music:YourBrain 000.pdf"
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but when I try
tell application "Finder"
set name of file "After Ewe:Users:Walter:Music:YourBrain 000.pdf" to "y000.pdf"
end tell
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it works and changes the file name
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A unix salesperson, Lenore/Loved her job, but loved the beach more. She devised a way to combine work and play:/She sells C-shells by the seashore
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