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kmancat

kmancat

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Hey, I'm pretty new to AppleScript. I need to know how create a TextEdit document with name "ProgramFile" at "Macintosh HD:Users:KmanCat"...I just can't figure out the syntax...:(
 
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Hi there and welcome !

TextEdit, unfortunately is not very AppleScript aware...

but here's one way you can do it, when TextEdit opens it normally 'opens' a blank document, quit textEdit then try this script...

tell application "TextEdit"
activate
save the front document in "Macintosh HD:Users:KmanCat:programFile.txt"
end tell

If you want to do a lot of scripting then have a look at TextWrangler it's free and a lot more powerful than TextEdit, and it's AppleScriptable !

Happy New Year !

Ric
 

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