Hi Steve First, a quick way to the stack or standalone folder is specialfolderpath(“resources”).
Check that your folders permissions are ok. export snapshot from rect 0,0,100,100 of this card to url ("binfile:"&specialFolderPath("resources")&"/Pic.jpg") as JPEG See if this helps when using your put tTempCrop into url(). > On 28 Jul 2018, at 21:41, Stephen MacLean via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Been a long time since I’ve done file work with LC, but I’m having an issue > saving an image to a file: > > # set the defaultFolder to the folder containing the stackfile > > set the itemDelimiter to slash > > get the effective filename of this stack > > set the defaultFolder to item 1 to -2 of it > > put tTempCrop into URL "binfile:/tempMedia/testimage.jpg" > > > results in a “Can’t open file” error. > > Trying to save to a folder called “tempMedia” that is in the same directory > as the stack. > > Mac OS 10.12.6, 9.01 RC1 Business. > > TIA, > > Steve MacLean > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode