Apple

On May 23, 2011, at 10:56 AM, Jeffrey Madson wrote:

I have attached a script below that works great and has been used extensively. Instead of installing the RRDAuto folder into the Utilities folder I want to install it into a folder called "Options" at the top level of the hard drive now. The "Options folder may or may not already exist when this is run.

In the first line I took out the word utilities and put in Options folder which creates an error. I also changed the set folderpath to line to: set folderpath to (("Options")) as text) & "RRDAuto" but the script never gets that far.

Any suggestions on how to get this script corrected would be greatly appreciated.

-- create RRDAuto folder
set x to path to utilities folder

There is no 'path to options folder'. You have to do this ...

property startupAlias : (path to startup disk)
property optionsName : "Options"
property RRDAutoName : "RRDAuto"

tell application "Finder"
if not (exists folder optionsName of startupAlias) then
make new folder at startupAlias with properties {name:optionsName}
end if
set optionsAlias to (folder optionsName of startupAlias) as alias
end tell

Then for this bit of script ...

-- the folder which should get an icon
set folderpath to (("Applications:Utilities:") as text) & "RRDAuto"
set folderpath to quoted form of POSIX path of folderpath

do the same thing ...

tell application "Finder"
if not (exists folder RRDAutoName of optionsAlias) then
make new folder at optionsAlias with properties {name:RRDAutoName}
end if
set RRDAutoAlias to (folder RRDAutoName of optionsAlias) as alias
set folderpath to (quoted form of (POSIX path of RRDAutoAlias))
end tell

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	>Slight deviation, big problem with script (From: Jeffrey Madson <email@hidden>)