I find this way slightly easier to remember (and type): use AppleScript version "2.4" use scripting additions use framework "Foundation" set usr to current application's NSUserName() as text set

Hey Michael, Eh? Oh, yeah — you're right. The POSIX Path coercion will work on aliases, hfs-paths, FURLs... But you can't expand a home-based POSIX Path in similar fashion. The only direct way of

Unless I'm missing the point here — entirely possible! — for whatever it's worth you actually don't need Finder *or* System Events for this particular task. The following does nicely, without any

Hi everyone! I want to create a service in Omnifocus to get something done. I usually create a script (.scpt), copy it and paste into the action "Run AppleScript" of Automator, and its ok. But now I

I'm a very occasional user of AppleScript, so I'm not all that up on how to do things. I have failed to find something by search, so here's my question. My application allows users to create custom

Nice! I’m pretty swamped at the moment, but could likely test this weekend. <hand raised> Ray

Yes, within days. I'm looking for volunteers to test the new stuff. Some clean-up and better trapping of problems. Also handlers for getting the contents of folders, including recursively. Plus a

Shane, thanks for mentioning, and thus reminding me of, this great library of yours. One of the things I really like is that it automatically handles all types of file/folder references. From the

Pretty much. There are exceptions, but it's mostly useful for file/date/string/image manipulation. File manipulation is a biggie simply because the alternatives aren't so hot. I should also mention

Well, that was definitely time well spent on my side, and thank you *very much* for the thorough reply. This is going to become a very colorful blog post... :-) I guess it will take me a bit more time

The pipes around NSURL are used because there's a terminology clash with a fairly common scripting addition that unfortunately uses the Cocoa class name. Preceding it by "current application's " is

Thank you Shane. Trying to understand the code below (while trying to understand the Foundation documentation in Xcode): It looks like you are calling a handler (fileURLWithPath) that belongs to

I was going to write something like that but considering my "level" in AS it would have sounded more like a sad rant than anything else so I gave up. But, yes, that's my feeling, plus the fact that

Defining best can be the issue, though. I suspect what most scripters really want is a single tool that may not be the fastest at everything, but is reliable, straight-forward to use, and fast

Hey Jean-Christophe, Unequivocally — nyet! (At least much of the time.) There are times when System Events will do things faster than the

Well you could always use: tell application "System Events" to set originals_folder to folder "originaux" of project_folder Or use "item" instead of "folder". However, what it leaves you with is a

Hey Jean-Christophe, Yes, and that's bad manners. If you want your dialog to be in the Finder then the script should switch there before launching the

There are places where I need Finder scripting because I use Finder (for ex to get its front window), but for the rest: working with paths, folders and files on a programatic level, I'd rather not

What are you using in place of Finder? It remains one of the most scriptable applications, and I’ve found that I can replicate most of the functions of alternatives like Path Finder (at least the

I'm slowly trying to move away from Finder but I have problems finding equivalents for trivial things that I'm doing, like: tell application "Finder" to set default_location to (target of front