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Using AppleScript to copy a file name?
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Senior User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Lafayette, IN, USA
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Hey there. I just got a new G5 at work where, up until now, there hasn�t been a Mac for about a decade. Anyway, I discovered the hard way that graphics copied into a FileMaker Pro database by a Windows-based machine do not show up on a Macintosh, so I need to update over 10,000 photos. The easiest way to do this involves passing a file name to a FileMaker script which, of course, involves copying said file name to the clipboard.
Does anyone know how to do this?!? 
Thanks!
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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Code:
tell application "Finder"
set the clipboard to the name of someFile as string
end tell
...where someFile is, obviously, some file.
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Senior User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Lafayette, IN, USA
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I was missing the �as string��. It�s always something ridiculously simple, ain�t it? 
Thanks!
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