Fetch Softworks

what happened to "exists"-command? (2 posts)

• Started 22 years ago by holger hanstein
• Latest reply 22 years ago from Jim Matthews

• holger hanstein Member

  i developped a facespan-project with fetch 4.0b7.
  now, after buying the final version i get error -1723
  "Fetch 4.0 got an error: Can't get remote directory "neuabbildungen" of transfer window 1. Access not allowed."

  this script works fine with fetch 3.03 & 4.0b7, but doesn't with 4.0:

  tell application "Fetch 4.0"
  activate
  tell transfer window 1
  if (exists remote directory "neuabbildungen") = false then
  make new remote directory at beginning with properties {name:"neuabbildungen"}
  end if
  end tell
  end tell

  - there is an open window
  - there is a directory in it called "neuabbildungen"
  is it a bug, or is there something wrong in my syntax?
  thanks, holger

  Posted 22 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  This appears to be a bug, but I haven't gotten to the bottom of what's going wrong. That statement certainly should work, and I will make sure it does in the next release.

  In the meantime you should be able to do something like this:

  try
  make new remote directory at beginning with properties {name:"neuabbildungen"}
  end try

  The command will fail if the directory already exists, but the error will be ignored.

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 22 years ago #