Move items using aliases

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#1

Can anyone help me?
I can’t seem to find a scriptable solution to move files and or folders through an alias to a target folder. If I could even get the path for the alias item, I’d have a solution to my problem. “Move to alias” doesn’t seem to work. Any Ideas? Thanks for your help.

#2

You can get the path by coercing the alias to string, then make it into a Finder reference by bopping the word ‘folder’ in front of it (in a Finder tell block).

set folderPath to folderAlias as string
tell application "Finder"
  move myFiles to folder folderPath
end tell

In 10.2.8, it also works if you put ‘folder’ in front of the alias variable instead, but I’m not sure if that’s kosher.

#3

Thank you so much. You may not understand how frustrated I was becoming. You rock!

:smiley: