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Le 22/05/2014 à 16:01, Bert Groeneveld <email@hidden> a écrit :

set path_to_desktop to path to desktop folder
set my_img to path_to_desktop & "2028.jpg" as string
tell application "Finder"
set file_found to exists my_img
end tell

When I change the name of the file on the desktop from "2028.jpg" into "002028.jpg" I hope to receive false as the result from above script, but the result is still true. It seems that the leading zero's are ignored. How can I fix that?

Thanks in advance for any help,
Bert.

Perfectly normal !

Your code is not checking the existence of a file but the existence of the string my_img.

I have to disagree.

It looks for the file but for the Finder these files seem to be identical.

I tested with

set path_to_desktop to path to desktop folder

set my_img to path_to_desktop & "000234.txt" as string

tell application "Finder"

set myRef to a reference to file my_img

set file_found to exists file my_img

try

open myRef

end try

end tell

which worked nicely with only 234.txt present and actually opened it.

This is really somewhat strange: with

234a.txt

and

00234a.txt

present,

set my_img to path_to_desktop & "0234a.txt" as string

opened 00234a.txt!

Replace :
set file_found to exists my_img
by

set file_found to exists file my_img

So this doesn't work.

For my own use I would code :

set path_to_desktop to path to desktop folder as text
set my_img to path_to_desktop & "2028.jpg"
tell application "System Events"
set file_found to exists disk item my_img
end tell

But this does work also on my machine.

Best

Thomas

References:
	>Finder's "exists" command ignores leading zero's in filename (From: Bert Groeneveld <email@hidden>)
	>Re: Finder's "exists" command ignores leading zero's in filename (From: "koenig.yvan" <email@hidden>)