I just want to move an image from one folder to the other, replacing the one that's already in there:
tell application "Finder"
copy file "/Users/xx/Documents/img.jpg" to folder "/Users/xx/Documents/State"
end tell
When I run it, I get an error message saying
Finder got an error: Can’t set folder [path] to file [path]"."number
-10006 from folder [path]
Please help me!
Try:
tell application "Finder"
duplicate POSIX file "/Users/xx/Documents/img.jpg" to POSIX file "/Users/xx/Documents/State" with replacing
end tell
Or
tell application "Finder"
move POSIX file "/Users/xx/Documents/img.jpg" to POSIX file "/Users/xx/Documents/State" with replacing
end tell
As #adayzdone notes, the error appears because you're using a Posix-style path without declaring it.
Another approach is to use colon-separated HFS paths, like so:
move file "Macintosh HD:Users:xx:Documents:img.jpg" ¬
to "Macintosh HD:Users:xx:Documents:State:" with replacing
With colon-separated paths you need to include the whole thing, including the volume name (I'm assuming Macintosh HD here), otherwise it'll throw our good friend error 10,006.
It helped me:
set theSource to POSIX file "/Users/xx/Documents/img.jpg"
set theDest to POSIX file "/Users/xx/Documents/State"
tell application "Finder"
move theSource to folder theDest with replacing
end tell
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I'm having trouble accessing this file while trying to select it on the beginning characters basis...
set location to "/Users/myuser/Desktop/"
set bom to POSIX file (location & (first file of location whose name begins with "thisFile"))
tell application "Preview" to open bom
is it path/alias vs text type of a thing?
Only System Events and the Finder know what a file in the file system is.
The Finder has a property desktop which points always to the desktop of the current user.
tell application "Finder" to set bom to first file of desktop whose name begins with "thisFile"
tell application "Preview" to open (bom as alias)
Or with an arbitrary POSIX path
set location to POSIX file "/Users/myuser/Desktop" as text
tell application "Finder" to set bom to first file of folder location whose name begins with "thisFile"
tell application "Preview" to open (bom as alias)
The alias coercion is needed because Preview doesn't recognize Finder file specifier objects.
vadian's answer works well, but it's worth mentioning that:
you can get access to well-known folders even in the default context, outside the context of System Events and Finder; e.g.:
path to desktop
path to home folder
Use, e.g., POSIX path of (path to home folder) to get the POSIX path.
using context System Events is usually preferable to the Finder context, for reasons of both performance and predictability.
With an arbitrary target folder, using a POSIX path:
tell application "System Events"
set targetFolder to alias "/Users/jdoe/Desktop"
# equivalent of: set targetFolder to (path to desktop)
set targetFile to first file of targetFolder whose name starts with "thisFile"
end tell
tell application "Preview" to open targetFile
Alternatively, if you know your way around the shell, you could try:
set targetFilePosixPath to do shell script "fls=(~/Desktop/*.pdf); printf %s \"$fls\""
tell application "Preview" to open (POSIX file targetFilePosixPath as alias)
The following works in Script Editor (or an Applescript App), but not in XCode:
tell application "Finder" to set folder_list to items of folder POSIX file "/Users"
Specifically, I get at runtime:
Finder got an error: Can’t make «class ocid» id «data optr000000002094230000600000» into type integer. (error -1700)
If I try "double coercion":
...((folder POSIX file "/Users") as POSIX file)
I get:
Can’t make «class cfol» «script» of application "Finder" into type POSIX file. (error -1700)
I did see something similar discussed here, but the solution did not work for me:
"POSIX file" works in Applescript Editor, not in XCode
Thanks!
//Reid
p.s. I know I could just use "Macintosh HD:Users"... This works, unless somebody renamed their hard drive.
Applescript has the "path to" command to find paths to well known folders, like a user's home folder, desktop, documents folder etc. That's the best way to access the folders. You can see all the locations applescript knows in the Standard Additions applescript dictionary for the "path to" command. It also knows where the users folder is. As such I would write your code like this...
set usersPath to path to users folder
tell application "Finder" to set folder_list to items of usersPath
You can try to smoothen it out yourself, as I suspect the AppleScript editor does for you:
tell application "Finder" to set folder_list to items of folder (POSIX file "/Users" as text)
What I did, was to coerce the posix file to text, otherwise it is of class furl which really isn't what Finder can take. I'd try to coerce your posix file statements to text, and see if that helps.
This compiles and runs, both from within my Editor, and from the script menu:
tell application "Xcode"
tell application "Finder"
set m to folder (POSIX file "/Users" as text)
set n to name of m
tell me to display alert n
end tell
end tell
I hope this helps.
Here is my code:
tell application "Finder"
move POSIX file "/Volumes/Toggle Desktop Icons/Toggle Desktop Icons/Install Files/Hide Icons.workflow" to folder "~/Library/Services"
end tell
And it always gets this error: Can’t get folder "~/Library/Services".
Any help? This also needs to work on any mac I run the code on. Without changing the code
Thanks.
There is a system property path to home folder that you could use. And for simplicity sake use the native mac HFS path delimiter ":" to reference the rest of your path.
Try this (adding back in your full source path),
tell application "Finder"
move POSIX file "/Volumes/.../Hide Icons.workflow" to folder (((path to home folder) as text) & "Library:Services")
end tell
Sorry, complete beginner here with AppleScripting.
I'm trying to do a very simple thing, move files from one folder to another.
tell application "Finder"
set this_folder to "Users:chris.nicol:Movies:SmartConverter:"
set this_list to every file of this_folder
repeat with i in this_list
--if i does not start with "x" then
move i to "users:chris.nicol:music:itunes:itunes media:automatically add to itunes:"
--end if
end repeat
end tell
However I keep getting an error:
I've tried different commands (count, parentContainer, etc.) on the folder, but I get the same type of error. I've tried different formatting for the folder ...
Users/chris.nicol/Movies/SmartConverter/
Macintosh HD:Users:chris.nicol:Movies:SmartConverter
etc.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Chris
Simple tip... if you want to find the proper path you should use try this and look in the results field for the proper path. You'll see that the name of the hard drive, Macintosh HD, is required. Note you could use "choose file" as well if you wanted the path to a file.
(choose folder) as text
Next, the path that you will see is a string. Applescript sees it as a string not a path to a file or folder. As such, when you want to use the string as a path then you must put the word "file" or "folder" in front of it as appropriate to make applescript use it properly. Therefore your script should look like this. Note that the move command can handle a list of files so the repeat loop isn't needed.
set this_folder to "Macintosh HD:Users:chris.nicol:Movies:SmartConverter:"
tell application "Finder"
set this_list to every file of folder this_folder
move this_list to folder "Macintosh HD:Users:chris.nicol:music:itunes:itunes media:automatically add to itunes:"
end tell
Try:
set thisFolder to (path to movies folder as text) & "SmartConverter"
set thatFolder to (path to music folder as text) & "itunes:itunes media:automatically add to itunes"
tell application "Finder" to move files of folder thisFolder to thatFolder
You must have some invisible or otherwise uncopyable files in one of the folders. Either add something like without invisibles to the end of your set this_folder line, or get rid of your loop altogether and simply call
move files of entire contents of this_folder to (the Add Automatically folder)
I am a complete applescript virgin and I have 2 versions of the same application that use different frameworks that have the same name.
I'm looking to create 2 scripts that move the correct version of the framework into the frameworks folder so I can swap them out quickly from the desktop.
This is what I have so far but it is throwing up an AppleEvent Handler failed -10000 error.
tell application "Finder"
duplicate POSIX file "Machintosh HD/Framework Store/Test.framework" to POSIX file "Machintosh HD/Library/Frameworks/Test.framework" with replacing
end tell
Can someone point out where I am going wrong?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Just noticed you also had the Had disk name. The first forward slash "/" is all you need to refer to that.
tell application "Finder"
set rootFolder to POSIX file "/Framework Store/Test.framework"
set targetFolder to POSIX file "/Library/Frameworks/"
duplicate rootFolder to targetFolder with replacing
end tell
Try:
tell application "Finder"
duplicate POSIX file "Machintosh HD/Framework Store/Test.framework" to POSIX file "Machintosh HD/Library/Frameworks" with replacing
end tell