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How to get the path to the selected item in a search device

Is there a way to get the pathname of the selected item in finder using applescript?

I tried the properties url and the POSIX path, but they just point to the local filesystem, not the server path, e.g .: smb: // server / folder1 / folder2 / filename

:

tell application "Finder"
    set selectedItem to the selection as alias
    URL of selectedItem --ouput: file://localhost/Volumes/server/folder1/folder2/filename
    POSIX path of selectedItem --output: /Volumes/server/folder1/folder2/filename
end tell

thanks for the help

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I think it has to do with the way directories work in OS X (and every * nix). AFAIK there are no UNC style paths on Mac. So the only workaround is to create a database of available Windows shares, look up the volume name of the file and extract from the url 'file: // some / server / path' based on that.

At least that's what I did when I had the same problem. Please note that smb: // URLs will not work for most web applications.



this and that shed some light on to it.

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