Apple

On Nov 9, 2014, at 1:03 PM, Robert Poland wrote:

This script snippet confounds me;

tell application "Finder"
set theFolder to "" & "~/Pictures/APOD ƒ/"
set theFolder to (choose file default location alias the folder
end tell

I keep getting error; Expected “,” but found end of line.

You forgot the ")" at the end of line 2.

I did something like that a few days ago ...

set startLoc to (path to startup disk) -- this is an alias

try

choose folder with prompt "Choose a disk or folder to search" default location startLoc

set searchLoc to the result

on error

return -- user cancelled

end try

An alternate to the first line might be something like this

set startLoc to (folder "Applications" of startup disk) as alias

or this

set startLoc to (folder "APOD ƒ" of folder "Pictures" of startup disk) as alias

And you will want to put that line within a try block just in case the folder you referenced is not there.

References:
	>ongoing Senior moments (From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>)