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Re: Move-copy-alias selected file to chosen destination folder
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Re: Move-copy-alias selected file to chosen destination folder


  • Subject: Re: Move-copy-alias selected file to chosen destination folder
  • From: Barry Fass-Holmes <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 09:01:16 -0700

Hi Ivan,

Many thanks for your prompt and helpful reply.

In my testing, after copy-pasting your script (below) to Script Editor and
saving it as a .scpt file, the Move button worked flawlessly but nothing
happened with the Copy and Alias buttons under High Sierra.6.

I used two different files (both on the Desktop), two different destination
folders (both in the Downloads folder).

Any suggestions?

I will test under Mojave (in a virtual machine) over the weekend.

Barry

> I can't test under Mojave but under High Sierra, the code below does the job.
>
> set theMethod to button returned of (display dialog "Do you want to move,
> copy or alias the selected file to the destintation folder?" buttons {"Move",
> "Copy", "Alias"} default button "Move")
> set theDestinationFolder to (choose folder with prompt "Select your
> destination")
> tell application "Finder"
>       set mySelection to the selection
>
>       if theMethod is "Move" then
>               repeat with aSel in mySelection
>                       move aSel to theDestinationFolder
>               end repeat
>       else if theMethod is "Copy" then
>               repeat with aSel in mySelection
>                       copy aSel to theDestinationFolder
>               end repeat
>       else if theMethod is "Alias" then
>               repeat with aSel in mySelection
>                       set itsName to name of aSel
>                       set anAlias to make alias to aSel at
> theDestinationFolder
>                       set name of anAlias to itsName
>               end repeat
>       end if
> end tell
>
> Yvan KOENIG running High Sierra 10.13.6 in French (VALLAURIS, France)
> mercredi 17 avril 2019  10:59:49
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