Posix file problems in Mavericks

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#1

What is going on here?

tell application “Finder” to get POSIX file “/Users/j/Pictures”
– This works

set xxx to “/Users/j/Pictures”
tell application “Finder” to get POSIX file xxx
– Finder got an error: Can’t get POSIX file “/Users/j/Pictures”.

#2

I’m not sure why that’s happening, but FWIW, POSIX file belongs to Standard Additions, so you should try to avoid using it in application tell blocks either way.

#3

Hi Shane,

It was really a part of a move command, hence the FInder block.

set xxx to "/Users/j/Pictures"
POSIX file xxx

… works as expected.

#4

Right, but I’m suggesting it shouldn’t be – that it should be kept outside application tell blocks.

#5

If you really need to trigger POSIX file in a tell Finder block, look at this short script:


tell application "Finder"
	# Wrong code
	get POSIX file "/Users/yvankoenig/Pictures"
	-- This works
	log result
	-->(*file Aluice_250:Users:yvankoenig:Pictures*)
	# Correct code
	tell me to get POSIX file "/Users/yvankoenig/Pictures"
	log result
	-->(*file Aluice_250:Users:yvankoenig:Pictures*)
	# Correct code
	set xxx to "/Users/yvankoenig/Pictures"
	tell me to get POSIX file xxx
	log result
	-->(*file Aluice_250:Users:yvankoenig:Pictures*)
end tell

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) samedi 18 janvier 2014 12:23:20