Re: POSIX vs Macinotosh Path Strings
Re: POSIX vs Macinotosh Path Strings
- Subject: Re: POSIX vs Macinotosh Path Strings
- From: Dave <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 20:42:55 +0000
- X_v_e_cd: 8fcb8b2daa36c85ae206bd2a10e00b01
- X_v_r_cd: 50ab301b9039426afb1cb10a4aa0e9cb
> On 17 Nov 2015, at 20:23, Steve Mills <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Nov 17, 2015, at 02:06 PM, Dave <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> tell application id "com.microsoft.Word"
>> activate
>>
>> set myFullName to "JaundicedOutlook:Users:Excession:Desktop:Bollox.docx"
>> set myFullNamePOSIX to the POSIX path of myFullName
>> display dialog myFullNamePOSIX —Displays /Users/Excession/Desktop/Bollox.docx
>>
>> set myNewFullName to POSIX file myFullNamePOSIX as text
>> display dialog myNewFullName —Displays Blanks dialog
>> tell
>>
>> But the myNewFullName is not set, e.g. is blank when it is displayed?
>
>
> Works fine for me, but I had to remove the tell Word part, since I don't have it anywhere near my Mac. Maybe take the script out of the tell block and see if it works. Word has been known to screw up the weirdest things. It's horrible
That was it! Thanks a lot!
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