Opening folder

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#1

I’m puzzled why i can’t open a folder…

tell application “Finder”
activate

set jobNum to display dialog "Job Number:" default answer "204094 Matis Deli" buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button 2
set userReply to text returned of jobNum
set workPath to "Art Department:  Work Files:"
open folder (workPath & userReply)

--open (first folder of disk "Art Department:  Work Files:" whose name begins with userReply)

end tell

the first open statement above opens the Matis Deli folder… if I use the second open statement and I have entered 204094 in the prompt window, I don’t get a folder… i get an error saying "finder got an error: Can’t get folder 1 of disk “Art Department: Work Files:” whose name starts with “204094”

can someone straighten me out?
thanks
david

#2

david:

Try doing this with your parentheses:

open (first folder of (disk "Art Department:  Work Files:") whose name begins with userReply)

If that does not work, try getting rid of the colons. I threw this together to test it out, and it worked:

set userReply to text returned of (display dialog "Enter the first few characters of a folder:" default answer "")
tell application "Finder"
	open (first folder of (disk "PilateII") whose name begins with userReply)
end tell
#3

nuts… this still doesn’t work… does it matter that “Art Department” is a network drive?

if I say:

open folder “Art Department”

that opens the network folder… if I say

open folder “Art Department: Work Files”

that opens the work files folder on the network drive Art Department…

I just can’t seem to get the script to work when I am looking to open the folder that begins with a specific string.

any more suggestions?
david

#4

That’s because " Work Files" isn’t a disk: it’s a folder. :slight_smile:

#5

AHHHHH… ok that makes sense… here’s the statement that I now have working…

open (first folder in folder " Work Files" of disk “Art Department” whose name begins with userReply)

thanks
david