Re: Automator-users Digest, Vol 124, Issue 2
Re: Automator-users Digest, Vol 124, Issue 2
- Subject: Re: Automator-users Digest, Vol 124, Issue 2
- From: Jim W <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 19:08:33 -0400
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> 1. Question on file access (David Gregg)
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> Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2017 18:10:21 -0600
> From: David Gregg <email@hidden>
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> Subject: Question on file access
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> Robert,
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> The issue you are running up against is that AppleScript doesn't use POSIX
> paths as its standard file path format. You need to convert them back into
> the standard AS path format, which contains colons versus forward slashes,
> for Finder to recognize them. AppleScript provides a means to do that.
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> Try replacing your "tell Finder" command with the following:
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> tell application "Finder" to open POSIX file aFile as alias
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> David Gregg
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