Newbie question

Script Debugger
#1

I have a trial version of Script Debugger 7, my old version 5 used to define alias’s as
“Macintosh HD:Users:graphics4:Desktop:PROOFS:X.pdf”
but 7 sometimes shows the alias as alias “/Users/graphics4/Desktop/PROOFS/X.pdf”

why does it use the slashes instead of colon sometimes?

#2

What do you mean by “define aliases”? Where and how?

#3

as in
Tell application “Finder”
set mySwapFile to “Macintosh HD:Users:graphics4:Desktop:Templates:swap.xlsx” as alias
duplicate mySwapFile to this_folder
set mySwapFile to (this_folder & “swap.xlsx” as string) as alias
open mySwapFile
end tell

#4

Are you running Mojave, by any chance? There was an issue where AppleScript was wrongly displaying aliases like this. (It’s an issue Script Debugger has no control over — it just displays what AppleScript returns.)

Also, this line:

set mySwapFile to (this_folder & “swap.xlsx” as string) as alias

is a bit risky because the result will depend on what text item delimiters is set to. You’re creating a list and then coercing that to a string. Better to use something like:

set mySwapFile to ((this_folder as text) & “swap.xlsx”) as alias