I thought it was going to be that. That's an obstacle, because it means I'll have to make a work environment that's a much closer mirror to what you're using. I'm pretty sure I can do that with a couple of disk images, but it will take me time to set it all up and start poking around with it. I'll have to get back to it tomorrow morning.
FWIW, I don't think the problem is with the NAS per se, but with the names of the mounted disks. Referring back to your earlier post of output:
//User1@DiskStation.local/home on /Volumes/home (afpfs, nodev, nosuid, mounted by user1)
//User2@DiskStation.local/home on /Volumes/home-1 (afpfs, nodev, nosuid, mounted by user2)
I think the problem lies here, where two users seem to have the same NAS folder mounted as two separate shares. AppleScript seems to be getting confused by this state of affairs.
It might work if you unmounted both shares (both users), and then mounted the sharepoint using only the active user you're running the script from. This should make it mount to "/Volumes/home", which you can check using the 'mount' command. At that point, there's only one mounted share, and no possible confusion over "home" vs. "home-1". You can try the earlier scripts (including your original one) and see what happens. Post any interesting results.
Regardless of what you try, and whether it works or not, I'm going to setup the test environment and see if I can find a way to resolve this. I think a resolution is possible, but I'm going to have to poke around with AppleScript to figure it out.
EDIT:
I was editing while you were posting your sign-off for the night message.
Agreed we'll pick it up in the morning.
I agree, there appears to be some confusion with home / home-1.
I have gone through the procedure of un-mounting and re-mounting so that I am the only user, and just "home" being mounted, as follows (this time, I am User1)
Code:
/dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)
//User1@DiskStation.local/home on /Volumes/home (afpfs, nodev, nosuid, mounted by user1)
then I run the code samples from last night
Code:
tell application "Finder"
set _items to selection
log "Items: " & (count of _items)
set foo to item 1 of _items
log "Item 1: " & foo
set bar to foo as alias -- force to alias
log "bar: " & bar
log "path: " & (POSIX path of bar)
end tell
result
Code:
tell application "Finder"
get selection
(*Items: 1*)
get document file "tutorial.pdf" of folder "temp" of disk "home"
Result:
error "Can’t make «class docf» \"tutorial.pdf\" of «class cfol» \"temp\" of «class cdis» \"home\" of application \"Finder\" into type Unicode text." number -1700 from «class docf» "tutorial.pdf" of «class cfol» "temp" of «class cdis» "home" to Unicode text
Code:
tell application "Finder"
set _items to selection
log "Items: " & (count of _items)
set _first to (first item of _items) as alias
log "First: " & _first
set _path to POSIX path of _first
set _fname to name of _first
log "Path: " & _path
log "Name: " & _fname
end tell
result
Code:
tell application "Finder"
get selection
(*Items: 1*)
get document file "tutorial.pdf" of folder "temp" of disk "home"
Result:
error "Can’t make «class docf» \"tutorial.pdf\" of «class cfol» \"temp\" of «class cdis» \"home\" of application \"Finder\" into type alias." number -1700 from «class docf» "tutorial.pdf" of «class cfol» "temp" of «class cdis» "home" to alias
Code:
tell application "Finder"
set _items to selection
log "Items: " & (count of _items)
set _first to first item of _items
log "First: " & _first
log "Disk: " & (disk of _first)
end tell
result
Code:
tell application "Finder"
get selection
(*Items: 1*)
get document file "tutorial.pdf" of folder "temp" of disk "home"
Result:
error "Can’t make «class docf» \"tutorial.pdf\" of «class cfol» \"temp\" of «class cdis» \"home\" of application \"Finder\" into type Unicode text." number -1700 from «class docf» "tutorial.pdf" of «class cfol» "temp" of «class cdis» "home" to Unicode text
Thats the results.
[doublepost=1473250691][/doublepost]Im not sure if this information will help, but think I ought to give as much background information as possible in case it does turn out to be relevant. I done the following, BEFORE I wrote any scripts, so do not have a before / after comparison.
I use my mac for both personal and work. I wanted a method to keep work and personal separate (other than just a "personal" folder and "work" folder), so I had the idea of making two users for myself. One for work, one for personal. This is what you see as User1 & User2 / home & home-1.
Again, I'm new to OS X so I'm learning as I go. For both users on the mac I have used the same AppleID (as they are both for me, just different work done on the respective user account). The main reason I done this is I wanted to be able to use my purchased apps for both users, and I was under the assumption that the available apps to a user where determined by the AppleID used, but in hindsight it appears to be any user can access apps on the machine, meaning I did not need to use the same AppleID on two different user accounts.
I was a little uncomfortable doing the above (2 User Accounts, 1 AppleID) but thought I would try, and everything appears to be working "ok" (ish). In hindsight I may remove the AppleID from one of the User Account's if I don't need it.
Do you have any advice on this? Good idea / bad idea / relevant / no relevance to topic.
The reason I mention it is, I do have the occasional issue since doing this (at least, I never had the problems listed below, beforehand)
1) Sometimes system preferences pops up asking me to enter my iCloud password
2) Sometimes mail pops up asking me for my password
3) Sometimes I cannot access ANY file on iCloud through Finder or Apps (returns a (null) reference)). The only resolve to this particular issue I have found is to completely restart the machine.
In additional to all this I took the opportunity to get parity between users on the mac and users on the NAS (i.e., for every user on the mac, there is a respective user on the NAS), this included me making an "Administrator" account on the Mac, and demoting myself to a "Standard" user from an "Administrator" in macs system preferences.
This made some sense to me as I would like to be able to use the mac / NAS as a normal user without any administritive privilliges, and leave all the administritive tasks to the Administrator user on the mac / NAS.
I hope this may of been of some relevance, and not a waste of your reading time.
Thanks Again!
