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paulzolo
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I have some scripts here, and upt to (and including Leopard), they work fine. In snow Leopard, they fail. This is the kind of code that is causing an error: Yes, the file planet.jpg is on my desktop. I’ve tried it on a Leopard Mac here, and it works. In Snow leopard, it gives an error. Is this something anyone else knows about and has managed to overcome?
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| Mon Sep 07, 2009 5:03 pm |
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Fogmeister
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What error does it give?
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| Mon Sep 07, 2009 5:18 pm |
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paulzolo
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big_D
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On my machine, it got rid of "drivename:Users:", it started with the username.
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| Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:06 pm |
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paulzolo
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You get the same error with this AppleScript: It takes a file you have chosen, turns it into a string, and then tries to turn it back to a file reference. This way, you get a reference to a real file to work with.
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| Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:27 pm |
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KindaWobbly
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Using your code in Snow Leopard gives me the same error you are getting. Assuming there's a reason why you want it to return a file reference rather than an alias, you can get the same result in 10.6 with something like this:
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| Mon Sep 07, 2009 11:51 pm |
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paulzolo
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HI,
What I am doing is fixing a Freeway Action. The Action takes a file reference from Freeway, drops it in some AppleScript and runs it. The file reference I get from Freeway is not a POSIX file - it’s a colon separated path.
Anyho, the good news is that using as alias instead of as file specification (Which I have just learned was deprecated a while back) seems to fix the problem. Thanks all.
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| Tue Sep 08, 2009 8:43 am |
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Nick
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Ah - boom boom pow! Glad to hear it's fixed.  _________________
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paulzolo
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Just need to test pn the other half’s iMac - which is PPC so is running Leopard. If it}s OK on that, I can get an update out. I’d hate to have to start writing Snow Leopard exceptions into the code.... 
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| Tue Sep 08, 2009 11:17 am |
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KindaWobbly
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Using an alias is almost certainly the best way. I'll confess I don't know what a Freeway Action is, and not that it matters anymore, but the code you posted was taking the, colon separated, alias reference from the original set > choose file command and turning it into a colon separated file reference. The workaround I suggested would achieve the same thing by taking the alias, colon separated path, turning into a POSIX path and then back again - this time into into a file reference rather than an alias. Illustration of my rather garbled explanation: 
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