Apple

On 02/11/2012, at 8:27 PM, Ronald Hofmann <email@hidden> wrote:

I have the following in Mountain Lion and this only happens when opening a folder from the desktop or another space.

Here's how to duplicate:
• Close all finder windows.
• Open any folder on the desktop, a new finder window will appear. Select any file in that finder window by clicking on it once.
• Open your AppleScript Editor and run the following script:

tell application "Finder"
return selection
end tell

The script will return only the path to the folder on the desktop, not the selected files in the finder window.

Any clues how to get the correct result?

I also tried this without success:

tell application "System Events"
tell application "Finder"
set theList to selection

set theText to ""
repeat with myItem in theList
set theText to theText & POSIX path of (myItem as text) & "\n"
end repeat

return theText

end tell
end tell

Greetings from Switzerland, Ronald Hofmann

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G'day Ronald.

I've been using this since Leopard.

tell application "Finder"

set newWin to make new Finder window

close newWin

return the selection

end tell

Regards

Santa

References:
	>wrong result when trying to get Selection from finder window (From: Ronald Hofmann <email@hidden>)