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On Oct 24, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Eric Robertson wrote:

I'm carrying on with my little project to save a sorted list of all the titles of my notes in Evernote into a text file in my Documents/Evernote/Notes folder, basing this on a script I think I found in this list. The name of the text file will normally be "Contents.txt" and if there is an existing file there of that name I want to replace the text with an up to date list of the Evernote note titles otherwise I will set up a new file. I am now using TextWrangler to save away the details!

I thought I could use 'exists' to find out if the file I wanted to use was already there but I couldn't find out how to do this. Instead I decided just to use 'try' and 'on error' when I was producing the alias to the file I wanted to use. This seems to work OK in the following handler:

on save_names(note_names)
set pathToDocuments to (path to documents folder) as text
set pathToFolder to pathToDocuments & "Evernote:Notes:" as text
set fileName to text returned of (display dialog "Set new file name:" default answer "Content.txt")
try
set filePath to (pathToFolder & fileName) as alias
on error
tell application "System Events"
make new file at end of folder pathToFolder with properties {name:fileName}
end tell
set filePath to (pathToFolder & fileName) as alias
end try

tell application "TextWrangler"
set existFile to open filePath
set the contents of existFile to note_names
save existFile
end tell
end save_names

The question I would like to to ask is whether this is a reasonable approach to deal with this situation or whether there is a better one.

Eric

References:
	>Checking on the existence of a file (From: Eric Robertson <email@hidden>)