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Re: error -1700


  • Subject: Re: error -1700
  • From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:28:27 -0600

I'm not sure I've read the problem correctly or understand it, but I did some experimenting with getting an alias list of the contents of a (target) folder using System Events. So, just in case there is a connection, I'm reporting the result of my experiment.

System Events can create a list of items in a folder, but this list seems to be un-usable …
(I felt like I was banging my head against a brick wall for about an hour)
UNTIL you discover System Events 'path' command.
I finally got this script which works:

tell application "Finder"
activate
set folderAlias to (target of window 1) as alias
end tell
set itemAliasList to my getItemAliasList(folderAlias)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {return}
log itemAliasList as text

on getItemAliasList(folderAlias)
tell application "System Events"
set itemList to (every item of disk item (folderAlias as text))
repeat with i from 1 to (count items of itemList)
(path of (item i of itemList)) as alias
set item i of itemList to the result
end repeat
end tell
return itemList
end getItemAliasList

The list itemList contains aliases to every folder and file in the target folder including invisible items.


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