Re: Finder weirdness

Subject: Re: Finder weirdness
From: KOENIG Yvan <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:36:21 +0100

Le 11 nov. 2010 à 18:55, Walter Bushell a écrit :

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

(1) I really don't understand what you wan't to do.

If I understand your code, it try to set the filename to y000.pdf

then to set it to x000.pdf

(2) Here, this handler does the trick

on dostuff(the_pdf)

set the_pdf to the_pdf as alias

tell application "Finder"

set the name of the_pdf to "y" & text -7 thru -5 of (get name of the_pdf) & ".pdf"

delay .1

set name of the_pdf to "x" & text -7 thru -1 of (get name of the_pdf)

end tell

end dostuff

Without the delay, the second 'set name' instruction fails because the modified path of the file isn't already available.

For my own use I would reduce the handler to :