Re: Paths in Mac standalone headache

2015-10-11 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Oct 10, 2015, at 3:39 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Once we discovered that the recursion was happening not because we had > directory structures more than 400,000 folders deep but simply because "set > the directory..." was failing so we kept attempting to get the files of the > same director

Re: Paths in Mac standalone headache

2015-10-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
David V Glasgow wrote: > On 6 Oct 2015, at 2:52 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> when the culprit was simply a defaultFolder assignment that didn't >> take. > > Thanks. Helpful scripts both. I think it *is* simply a folder > assignment that doesn’t take. Not the default folder, but the > path to

Re: Paths in Mac standalone headache

2015-10-10 Thread David V Glasgow
> On 6 Oct 2015, at 2:52 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > when the culprit was simply a defaultFolder assignment that didn't take. Thanks. Helpful scripts both. I think it *is* simply a folder assignment that doesn’t take. Not the default folder, but the path to the results which I temporari

Re: Paths in Mac standalone headache

2015-10-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
John Dixon wrote: > Would this help you in setting the defaultfolder > > on preOpenStack >set itemDel to "/" >set the defaultfolder to item 1 to -2 of \ (the effective fileName of this stack) > end preOpenStack We've become so used to defaultFolder working that most of us don't do

RE: Paths in Mac standalone headache

2015-10-04 Thread John Dixon
Would this help you in setting the defaultfolder on preOpenStack set itemDel to "/" set the defaultfolder to item 1 to -2 of (the effective fileName of this stack) end preOpenStack > From: dvglas...@gmail.com > Subject: Paths in Mac standalone headache > Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2015 11:37:55