I’ve just written my first script. I call it from a REALBasic app that I’ve written.
tell application "Finder"
duplicate file "Budget.rsd" of folder "REALBasic Projects 2009" of folder "Documents" of home
end tell
It works just fine on my machine. But this app will be run by a few other people on other machines. What I was wondering was how to write the script so that it will find the path to Budget.rsd on these other machines because the app won’t know where the file resides.
This should do it. But I’m also not good in applescript, so the script might just not work. But if it works, I recommand you to save it as an application, and not as a script, if you know what I mean. Because every time you recompile the script, the variable TheBudgetFile is set to missing value. And in an application you can’t recompile something.
Script
property TheBudgetFile : missing value
if TheBudgetFile is missing value then set TheBudgetFile to (choose file without invisables)
tell application "Finder" to if not (exists TheBudgetFile) then set TheBudgetFile to (choose file without invisables)
tell application "Finder"
duplicate file TheBudgetFile to (choose folder) -- insert where you want to copy the file to
end tell
hope it works,
ief2
PS.: I’m sorry for my English. I know I sometimes make some rubbish sentences, but I ask you to forgive me. I’m only 14 years old and I come from Belgium, so I speak dutch. If you don’t understand me, don’t hesitate to give a reply on that.
assuming the file is located in the home folder of the current user
the most effective way to search it is the shell command find
set homeFolder to POSIX path of (path to home folder)
set budgetPath to do shell script "/usr/bin/find " & quoted form of homeFolder & " -name Budget.rsd"
set budgetFile to missing value
if budgetPath is not "" then
set budgetFile to POSIX file (paragraph 1 of budgetPath) as alias
end if
or Spotlight, if the volume is indexed by Spotlight
set homeFolder to POSIX path of (path to home folder)
set budgetPath to do shell script "/usr/bin/mdfind -onlyin " & quoted form of homeFolder & " 'kMDItemFSName = \"Budget.rsd\"'"
set budgetFile to missing value
if budgetPath is not "" then
set budgetFile to POSIX file (paragraph 1 of budgetPath) as alias
end if
The Spotlight version is probably faster, but anyway, both methods can take a long time depending on the size and the amount of files of the homefolder