Re: ongoing Senior moments
Re: ongoing Senior moments
- Subject: Re: ongoing Senior moments
- From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 09:28:45 -0500
> On Nov 9, 2014, at 14:03 , Robert Poland <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 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.
> Using "~/Pictures/APOD ƒ/“ in place of theFolder doesn’t help.
> After restarting Smile I get the error “file Alias "~/Pictures:APOD ƒ/“ of <<script>> wasn’t found.
>
> using;
> set theFolder to choose file default location alias "Macintosh HD:Users:rpoland:Pictures:APOD ƒ”
> Works, but I want it to be independent pf which machine it’s on.
>
> The goal is to do a choose folder with a default.
>
>
> Robert Poland
> Fort Collins CO
I don’t know exactly where you want to place the file, but if you want to get the path to the current user picture folder then use:
<script>
path to “pdoc"
</script>
For instance you can try
<script>
set p to path to "pdoc"
tell application "Finder" to open p
</script>
Deivy Petrescu
email@hidden
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