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Re: ongoing Senior moments


  • Subject: Re: ongoing Senior moments
  • From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 07:41:03 -0700

> On Nov 10, 2014, at 7:28:AM, Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>
>> 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:

As above -

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

> <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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