Prevent "Choose file" from choosing packages?

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#1

I’ve written a few scripts that let a user choose a file and then convert it to another format. I perform various tests to see whether the chosen file is in a format that the script can convert. But I still can’t solve one problem:

“Choose file” lets a user select a file that’s really a package - for example the “About Downloads” file in the Downloads folder in Mountain Lion (and and perhaps other versions) is really a package containing folders with many PDF files. Is there a simple way to detect when a user has chosen a package so that I can display an error message?

I thought of testing for a colon as the last character of the path reported by System Events, but I wonder if there is a more direct method.

Thanks for any advice.

#2

Hi,

try this


set theFile to choose file
tell application "System Events" to set isFilePackage to package folder of theFile
#3

Hi. Will this work?

tell application "Finder" to try
	(choose file)'s item 1 --on success, is package
end try

Edit: Stefan beat me to it, and his solution is better. :slight_smile:

#4

Both excellent! Thank you for the quick and efficient suggestions.