Checking if a folder 'exists' in Finder

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#1

Hi there,

Please can someone help me with this small query. I’m trying to find out if a folder exists in a particular folder. I’ve already done this by getting he contents of the folder and looping through all the names, but I wanted to try and shorten it and make it look a little more tidy.

Here’s the sort of thing I’m trying to do:-

tell application "Finder"
  if exists (folder whose name is "NAME" as text) of folder "MAC HD:FOLDER:FOLDER:" then
	-- DO THIS
  end if
end tell

I’ve tried a number of variations on this but I think I must be getting my references wrong or syntax mixed up.

Please can someone help.

Thanks

Nick

#2

Hi Nick,

it’s easier:

tell application "Finder"
	if exists folder "MAC HD:FOLDER:FOLDER:" then
		-- DO THIS
	end if
end tell

or without the Finder:

try
	"MAC HD:FOLDER:FOLDER:" as alias
	-- DO THIS
end try
#3

Hi Stefan,

Thank you for your reply and for the two examples. :slight_smile:
I like the method without using the Finder.

I’d started off way too complicated. :expressionless:

Thanks again,

Regards,

Nick

#4

Hi Nick,

If you’re finding a folder named “NAME” in another folder, you don’t need filter reference form. Just use the mixed reference:

tell application “Finder”
if exists folder “NAME” of folder “MAC HD:FOLDER:FOLDER:” then
– DO THIS
end if
end tell

#5

Hi Kel,

Thanks for your reply and for the example.
It’s useful to see another way of looking at things.

Regards,

Nick

#6

Hi Nick,

It’s not another way of looking at it. It looks like, from the script you posted, that you were looking for a folder named “NAME” inside folder “MAC HD:FOLDER:FOLDER:”

(folder whose name is “NAME” as text) of folder “MAC HD:FOLDER:FOLDER:”

and using the filter reference form rightly would not be necessary.

Maybe Stefan forgot to put the “NAME” folder in the path.

gl,

#7

Hi Kel,

Thanks again for your reply.
Yeah, I’d noticed the folder name missing in Stefans example and so put one in and it worked fine.

Regards,

Nick

#8

This has been covered many times, including once in the past week:

http://bbs.applescript.net/viewtopic.php?pid=76387