Class of folder

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adayzdone August 10, 2012, 2:17pm #1

I am having a brain freeze …

How do return the “folder” class instead of “alias”?

set xxx to alias "Mac OS X:Users:John:Desktop:testFolder:"
tell application "Finder" to get class of xxx

StefanK August 10, 2012, 2:22pm #2


set xxx to alias ((path to desktop as text) & "testFolder:")
tell application "Finder" to get class of item (xxx as text)

adayzdone August 10, 2012, 2:25pm #3

Thanks Stefan.

Why do you have to include item?

DJ_Bazzie_Wazzie August 10, 2012, 3:16pm #4

Now you get the class of an item from a disk, otherwise the class is just the variable, which is an alias. The parentheses and as text coercion is not needed per se (on my machine) you need to add item.