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Re: Folder or File?


  • Subject: Re: Folder or File?
  • From: "Stockly, Ed" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:53:03 -0500
  • Acceptlanguage: en-US
  • Thread-topic: Folder or File?

In brief, an item is a reference to a file or a container (folder, drive,
remote volume) that appears in a finder window or on the desktop.

The reference is in this format:

item "volume:folder:name"

The part in quotes is a plain old text string.

If the item in question is a file, then

file "volume:folder:name"

works too. I use item when the command may refer to a folder, a volume or a
file. It's flexible in that it doesn't care if the object is a container or
a file.

To coerce it to an alias you could do:

item "volume:folder:name" as alias

or

alias "volume:folder:name"

You shouldn't do:

item alias "volume:folder:name"

(This is what the example posted earlier was doing via a variable)

To coerce from an alias you could do

set myItem to item (alias "volume:folder:name" as text)

HTH,

ES





On 6/23/11 4:18 PM, "Gil Dawson" <email@hidden> wrote:

> Thanks for the insight, Shane.
>
> I'd like to learn more about Finder's "item".  I have a pdf file dated 6/18/10
> of a book named "AppleScript Finder Guide".  Is this the best place for me to
> read about Finder's "item"?
>
> --Gil
>
>
> On Jun 23, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Shane Stanley wrote:
>
>> On 24/6/11 8:26 AM, "Luther Fuller" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> You should do this ...
>>>
>>> set FolderA to (item 1 of FolderList) as alias
>>> set FolderB to (item 2 of FolderList) as alias
>>>
>>> And after it, insert this or something similar ...
>>>
>>> tell application "Finder"
>>> if class of item FolderA is not folder then return
>>> if class of item FolderB is not folder then return
>>> end tell
>>
>> If you are going to use Finder's "item", FolderA/FolderB should be strings,
>> not aliases.
>>
>> --
>> Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
>> 'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
>>
>>
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