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CHAPTER 3

Finder Commands

Command Deﬁnitions 125

You can use replacing existing items, with replacing, or

replacing true instead of replacing conflicts without changing

the meaning of this script.

NOTES

If an object speciﬁed by the referenceToObject parameter is located on a different

disk from the container speciﬁed by the referenceToContainer parameter, the

Move command copies the object instead of moving it, but doesn’t provide any

warning that it has failed to remove the original object. To move any object

from one disk to another, copy the object to the new disk (using either the

Move or the Copy command), then delete the original object using the Delete

command. See page 118 for an example of a script that uses this technique.

Open 3

An Open command is a request to open an object. The Finder version of the

Open command is similar to the version described in the AppleScript Language

Guide, except that the Finder’s Open command can open objects such as

application ﬁles, folders, suitcases, and disks as well as ﬁles, and in the case

of document ﬁles allows you to specify the application that opens them.

SYNTAX

open referenceToObject [ using referenceToApplication ]

PARAMETER

referenceToObject

A reference to the object to be opened or a list of references.

Class: Reference or list of references

referenceToApplication

A reference to the application ﬁle with which you want to open

the document ﬁles speciﬁed by referenceToObject.

Class: Reference or list of references

Default value: None

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