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Re: On the difficulties of "/"" in Applescript with example
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Re: On the difficulties of "/"" in Applescript with example

  • Subject: Re: On the difficulties of "/"" in Applescript with example
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:07:35 +1100
On 18 Oct 2013, at 10:02 AM, Walter Bushell <email@hidden> wrote:

> But here I get from
>
> tell application "Finder" to set x to alias "After Ewe Firewire:Users:Walter:Music:\"ur\"file"
>
> --->error "Finder got an error: Can’t get alias \"After Ewe Firewire:Users:Walter:Music:\\\"ur\\\"file\"." number -1728

What happens if you run this:

set thePath to (choose file) as text -- choose the file in question
tell application "Finder" to set x to alias thePath
log x
log (x as alias)


--
Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
'AppleScriptObjC Explored' <www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>


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