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On 24 Oct 2012, at 18:30:37, email@hidden wrote:

From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Checking on the existence of a file
Date: 24 October 2012 18:30:37 GMT+01:00
To: Applescript Users <email@hidden>

On Oct 24, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Eric Robertson wrote:

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.

Here are some examples of code I use:

1. invisibleTagArchive is a string which begins with "." (an invisible item)
and locCont is an alias to a folder (but notice that I used it as text).

tell application "System Events" to exists disk item invisibleTagArchive of disk item (locCont as text)

2. destFolder is an alias to a folder and the name of the file is a string.

tell application "Finder"
.
.
if not (exists file (newFileName & "." & suffixNr & ".emlx") of destFolder) then exit repeat

3. Here, Path is the full path to a folder as text.

tell application "Finder"
if not (exists folder Path) then return 0

4. newFileName is a string and destFolder is an alias

tell application "Finder"
if (exists folder newFileName of destFolder) then

These have been working correctly for a very long time in 10.6.8 and continue to work in 10.7.