paul_apted Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 Hello, How do i Copy the text from a cell into the "Comments" property of a file? (using OSX.2) thanks in advance Paul Apted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfmcel Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 I haven't tested it on OSX, but it should be something like tell application "Finder" to set FileComment to comment of theFileAlias tell application "FileMaker Pro" to set cell "File Comment" of current record to FileComment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_apted Posted April 14, 2003 Author Share Posted April 14, 2003 hmm, thanks for your info ,i fiddled around: tell application "FileMaker Pro" set myfile to cell "filepathtext" set mycomments to cell "description" end tell tell application "Finder" set mycomments to comment of the file myfile end tell i could "see" (through the hard drive light) Fmpro accessing the file but nothing happened ,i checked the file in OS9 and nothing there either ,i know there is weirdness between os9 and osx regarding comments .. any ideas thank you Paul Apted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfmcel Posted April 16, 2003 Share Posted April 16, 2003 I read your question backwards. It should be ... set comment of the file myfile to mycomments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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