Common writable folders

[Jim Ault]

On 1/18/07 11:41 AM, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> Thanks. It's the space in "Application Support" that is causing the
> trouble. I ran it in the Applescript editor and it really doesn't like
> my file path. If I use slashes, it complains and won't compile. If I use
> colons, it puts out two errors:
> 
>   No such file or directory ":Library:Application:"
>   No such file or directory "Support:myFolder:"
> 
> Blech.

You might try the form:

alias "path:folder:file"  -- in quotes for Applescript syntax
------- test 1 ------------------
In the script editor, do a new script one-liner

set daFile to choose file "Please make your click count"
You will see the result is the form the AScript likes
------- test 2 ------------------
To do this from a Rev script

put quote into q
answer file "Make it count"
if it is empty then exit to top
put revMacFromUnixPath(it) into FName

get "tell application "&q&"Finder"&q &cr
get it &"return the modification date of alias "
get it & q&FName&q &cr
get it & "end tell"
    
do (it) as AppleScript



On 1/18/07 11:41 AM, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> Chris Sheffield wrote:
>> 
>> On Jan 18, 2007, at 11:35 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>> 
>>> Where are you indicating it should be executed as applescript?
>>> 
>>> Could I see a sample of your entire command sequence? The above isn't
>>> accepted by Rev as-is.
>> 
>> 
>> Oops, sorry about that. I do have it set to run as applescript. I just
>> forgot to add that in my email. So my whole line of code, without
>> putting the command in a variable, would be something like:
>> 
>> do "do shell script" && quote & "chmod 755 /myfolder/myfile" & quote &&
>> "with administrator privileges" as AppleScript
>> 
>> 
>> As I said before, I'm doing this on a single file, not on a folder. And
>> my path does not contain any spaces.
> 
> Thanks. It's the space in "Application Support" that is causing the
> trouble. I ran it in the Applescript editor and it really doesn't like
> my file path. If I use slashes, it complains and won't compile. If I use
> colons, it puts out two errors:
> 
>   No such file or directory ":Library:Application:"
>   No such file or directory "Support:myFolder:"
> 
> Blech.