FileMaker Pro Custom Functions

My answer: only if you use a Mac.

These script steps:

Set Variable ( $path ; Get ( DocumentsPath ) )
Perform AppleScript ( makefolder ( "vcard" ; $path ) )

generate an error -43 and the comment that my Documents folder cannot be found. It is in fact, right where it is intended to be.

The folder "vcards" is not created.

Lorne Walton, Maple Ridge, BC, Canada
April 17, 2009 4:52pm

The reason Get ( DocumentsPath ) is failing in the code above is because it returns a POSIX path and Finder needs a HFS path ( colon separated).

"HardDrive:Users:user_name:Documents:"

Make that adjustment and it should work fine.

Craig Williams, Monument, CO
May 03, 2009 3:51pm

Tried that. Didn't work. This change to the CF worked:

"
set ASPath to \"" & pathTo & "\" ¶
tell application \"Finder\" ¶

if not (exists folder \"" & new_folder & "\"" & " in alias ASPath ) then ¶
make new folder in folder " & "\""& pathTo & "\" "& " with properties {name:" & "\"" & new_folder & "\"} ¶
end if ¶
end tell

"

Lorne Walton, Maple Ridge, BC, Canada
May 04, 2009 5:20am

It's bad practice to call Finder to perform operations such as this.
Instead you should use:

tell application " & Quote("System Events") &"¶
make new folder at end of pathTo¶
end tell¶

Jack James, London
May 06, 2009 2:47am

I find it more reliable -- and quicker -- to call a shell script:

set variable $AppleScript to

"do shell script " & quote ( "mkdir /Users/jamesducker/Desktop/whatever/" )


perform applescript $AppleScript

James Ducker, Swindon UK
January 22, 2010 9:32am