Newbie folder question

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#1

I don’t understand what I’m doing wrong here. I am just trying to set the contents of a folder. It keeps telling me it “can’t get every file of the folder”


set myFolder to ((path to home folder as string) & "Test") as alias
set these_items to files of myFolder
repeat with i from 1 to the count of these_items
	set this_item to item i of myFolder
#2

Only the Finder (and System Events) knows, what a file of an alias is, AppleScript doesn’t

set myFolder to ((path to home folder as string) & "Test") as alias
tell application "Finder"
	set these_items to files of myFolder
	repeat with i from 1 to the count of these_items
		set this_item to item i of myFolder
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end tell
#3

I think I’m doing this wrong and shouldn’t use Finder to set these_items? I am then trying to execute this:


set myFolder to ((path to home folder as string) & "Test") as alias
tell application "Finder"
	set these_items to files of myFolder
	
	repeat with i from 1 to the count of these_items
		set this_item to item i of myFolder
		
		checkStableSize(this_item)

end repeat
end tell

And keep getting “Finder can’t continue” on the checkStableSize command.

#4

In an application tell block it’s vice versa:
The Finder has no idea, what a handler is, but AppleScript knows :wink:

You must use either

checkStableSize(this_item) of me

or

my checkStableSize(this_item)
#5

Hmm. Now I get an error message I completely don’t understand:

Can’t make «class docf» “Movie.mp4” of «class cfol» “Test” of «class cfol» “vtaccess” of «class cfol» “Users” of «class sdsk» of application “Finder” into the expected type.

What does that even mean???

#6

your handler expects an alias not a file specifier

solution:

my checkStableSize(this_item as alias)

or within the handler

on process_item(this_item)
   set {name:Nm, name extension:Ex} to info for this_item as alias
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