Script to make new folders in the finder ?

[Dan Ebberts]

You should take a look at the Folder object constructor section in Adobe’s JavaScript Tools Guide, but basically it’s like this:

myFolder = new Folder (theFolderPath);

Dan

[Daniel Crooks]

hi Dan

thanks for pointing me onto the Javascript Tools Guide, I’ve been plodding along with the After Effects scripting guide which is a bit thin on the basics. All up running sweetly now.

cheers../ Daniel

[Adam Ghering]

Ok so I have tried numerous ways to create a folder on the drive with no luck…every time I use the examples that people have posted it doesn’t work. I have tried your above examples but I still have no luck. this is what I have tried

myfolder = new File(“c:\\Newfolder\\”);

didn’t work so I found a command in the java script toolkit and tried this

Folder.create(“c:\\Newfolder\\”);

this gives the error that Folder.create is undefined so I tried this

myfolder = new File(“c:\\Newfolder\\”);
Folder.create(myfolder);

still no luck

also
myfolder = Folder.create(“c:\\Newfolder\\”);

some of the examples seem to run without errors but there is no folder created in the directory.

What am I missing.

[Dan Ebberts]

Try it this way:

var myFolder = new Folder(“/c/Newfolder”);
myFolder.create();

Dan

[Adam Ghering]

Thank you Dan…that worked

What about creating a wildcard for looking for a script like

/c/user/*.jsx

and having the script return whatever it .jsx it finds there.

thanks,

[Dan Ebberts]

Try this:

var myFiles = myFolder.getFiles(“*.jsx”);

Dan