Re: Where is Trash Folder(?)?
Re: Where is Trash Folder(?)?
- Subject: Re: Where is Trash Folder(?)?
- From: Robert Poland <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:19:37 -0600
- Z-usanet-msgid: XID233TiZsTM1008X31
> On Sep 26, 2015, at 11:41:AM, Yvan KOENIG <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>
>> Le 2015/09/26 à 19:34, Robert Poland <email@hidden> a écrit :
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I’m trying to create a script, below, that I can add to a Keyboard Maestro shortcut. This script works with normal folders but “Trash” doesn’t seem to have a home.
>>
>> Any thoughts/suggestions?
>>
>> (* openTrashContainer - 9/26/15 - By R L Poland
>> *)
>>
>> tell application "Finder"
>> activate
>> set TrashFolder to (path to Trash folder)
>> set windowList to name of Finder windows as text
>> # display dialog windowList
>> if windowList contains "Trash" then
>> close window "Trash"
>> else
>> open folder TrashFolder
>> end if
>> end tell
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>
>
> (1) path to is not a Finder command but a Standard Additions one.
>
>
> (2) It seems that you failed top look in Standard Additions dictionary.
>
> There is no "path to trash folder" command, just a "path to trash" one.
>
> Taking care of that, it's easy to build a script which behave flawlessly.
>
> set TrashFolder to (path to trash)
> tell application "Finder"
> activate
>
> set windowList to name of Finder windows as text
> # display dialog windowList
> if windowList contains "Trash" then
> close window "Trash"
> else
> open folder TrashFolder
> end if
> end tell
>
>
>
> Yvan KOENIG running Yosemite 10.10.5 in French (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 26 septembre 2015 19:41:13
I keep getting the error
"Result:
error "Finder got an error: Can’t make alias \"Macintosh HD:Users:rpoland:.Trash:\" into type folder." number -1700 from alias "Macintosh HD:Users:rpoland:.Trash:” to folder“
Robert Poland
Fort Collins, CO
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