• Adobe After Effects

  Can’t write to file (after effects scripting)

  Posted by Arno Deceuninck on June 18, 2017 at 4:01 pm

  I have this code:
  var exportDurationFile = new File;
exportDurationFile = exportDurationFile.saveDlg ("Choose your duration export location", "Text File:*.txt");

  exportDurationFile.open("w");
  $.writeln("opened for writing");

  exportDurationFile.encoding = "UTF-8";
  $.writeln("Encoding set to UTF-8");

  exportDurationFile.write("test");
  $.writeln("test written to it");

  exportDurationFile.close();
  $.writeln("file closed");

  $.writeln("export succesfully");

  But it doesn’t write anything to the file, this is the console output:
  Select output file
opened for writing
Encoding set to UTF-8

  Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong?

  Arno Deceuninck replied 9 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
• 2 Replies

• 

  Walter Soyka

  June 19, 2017 at 2:24 pm

  Your code is fine. You have to make sure you’ve enabled “Allow Scripts to Write to Files and Access Network” in Ae’s general preferences.

  Walter Soyka
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  Arno Deceuninck

  June 19, 2017 at 6:06 pm

  Thanks!

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