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Re: file with most recent modification date

Subject: Re: file with most recent modification date
From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 10:33:57 -0600

On Nov 25, 2013, at 10:05 AM, Robert Poland wrote:

This should be simple, but…
Don’t see anything in the Finder dictionary that applies.

tell application "Finder"
open the folder "Macintosh HD:Users:rpoland:Pictures:APOD ƒ"
set theFile to the name of the file whose properties contain the most recent modification date
end

try this handler …

on getMostRecent(folderAlias)

tell application "Finder" to (sort (every item of folderAlias) by modification date)

return item 1 of the result as alias

end getMostRecent -----------------

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