Question

I am not getting the file inside the images folder through this code. How can I get that file’s name in the given variable (filelist)?

set p to "/Users/sumeet/Desktop/images/"

set a to POSIX file p

set filelist to (names of items of (POSIX file a))

-- file "Macintosh HD:usr:local:bin:"

Answer 1

This will work :

set a to "Macintosh HD:Users:sumeet:Desktop:images:" as alias
tell application "Finder"
    set filelist to name of every file in a
end tell

You have to tell Finder to get the list of items. Also Finder only takes alias paths, so you have to change the unix path to an alias (aaa:aaa:aaa:) format.

You could also do it this way :

tell application "Finder"
        set filelist to name of every file in folder "images" of desktop
    end tell