How do I create an alias list...

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#1

Hello,

I am unable to do a bisc thing…

I need to create an “alias list” of the full content of a folder… without any user interaction (no dialog => I specify in the script the folder I want to make an alias list of)

Attention: This script needs to run on AppleScript 1.6…

Can someone PLEASE help me.

Andrew

#2

Hi, Andrew.

An ‘alias list’ is created by the Finder. It works as a coercion tagged onto the end of a Finder reference. In older Finder versions, it errors if the reference only returns one item, so a ‘try’ block is needed to catch that eventuality:

set myFolder to (choose folder) -- Just for the demo.
tell application "Finder"
	try
		set aliasList to (items of myFolder) as alias list
	on error -- Exactly one item in the folder.
		set aliasList to (first item of myFolder) as alias as list
	end try
end tell