script a selected folder info

[kyle122280]

I am having difficulty making a script that will take a selected folder (not opened) and transfer the folder name as well as all subfolders and file names in those folders to TextEdit. Anyone have any suggestions

[Camelot]

That’s a fairly abstract request. What kind of information do you want to display? just file names, or paths? or paths from the selected folder?

it’s trivial to get a list of file paths:

tell application “Finder”
set filelist to entire contents of (choose folder) as text
end tell

which can then be passed to Text Edit in a number of ways:

tell application “TextEdit”
make new document at beginning with properties {text:filelist}
end tell

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but I’m guessing that’s not quite what you want…

[jonn8]

but I’m guessing that’s not quite what you want…

With a little more code it probably is:

–Open this script in a new Script Editor window.

set name_only to false
tell application “Finder”
try
set f to (get selection)'s item 1 –try to get the currently selected folder
if f’s class is not folder then
activate
set f to (choose folder)
end if
on error
activate
set f to (choose folder)
end try
if name_only then
set e to name of f’s entire contents
else
set e to f’s entire contents
end if
end tell
set filelist to {“Contents of " & f & return & return}
repeat with i from 1 to (count e) –convert the references to path strings
set end of filelist to (”" & e’s item i & return)
end repeat
tell application “TextEdit”
make new document at beginning with properties {text:filelist as Unicode text}
activate
end tell

Jon

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