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Date: | Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:11:51 -0500 |
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On Nov 21, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Bill Steele wrote:
> We have a G4 still running OS 9.2, used mostly for backups. I
> recently hooked up a LaCie external hard drive and installed the
> accompanying Silverlining software, and the result seems to have
> screwed up Applescript's ability to write to files. Scripts that
> used to work now give error messages.
>
It could be a bad version of the Standard Additions. There was a
version in there that didn't work right and wouldn't write to a file
that didn't exist.
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> set someText to "this is a test"
> set foo to choose file -->Disk:folder:test
> set outFile to open for access foo with write permission
> write someText to outFile starting at 0
> close access outFile
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> Works. But...
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> set someText to "this is a test"
> set foo to :"Disk:folder:test"
also this line doesn't compile
> set outFile to open for access file foo with write permission
> write someText to outFile starting at 0
> close access outFile
>
> --> "File Disk:folder.test wasn't found"
I had this happen on a few machines and wound up having to make sure
to always have a file around to work on.
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