OK Tim, I figured out the problem, I added a forward slash in front of users, and that fixed it. /Users/Robert/Box Sync/Music/Christmas/Johnny Gill - Give Love On Christmas Day.mp3
thanks again, > On Dec 5, 2016, at 2:08 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > It depends on what app you're doing this in. In terminal, you would do the > following: > > users/robert/Box\ Sync/Music/Christmas/'Johnny Gill - Give Love On Christmas > Day.mp3' > > Notice that I did two different things within your filename where there was a > space or spaces. You can put a back-slash in just before the space so that > Terminal will ignore that space character, or further in the filename, I put > quotes around the title. Both single or double quotes will work. > > When in AppleScript, you use colons where Terminal would use the slash, and > the quotes are not necessary. > > HTH. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Dec 5, 2016, at 11:49, Robert Cole <mr.robertc...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Dear List, > Can someone tell me the correct way to type a file path? > for example: > > users\robert\Box Sync\Music\Christmas\Johnny Gill - Give Love On Christmas > Day.mp3 > > > Thanks in advance, > Rob > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you > can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you > can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
